Extract time from datetime in pandas dataframe for TWINT

extract-time-from-datetime-dataframe.md

Problem

I want to extract the time part of a datetime column (2021-02-17 00:14:53). For example, from Twitter data stored in a dataframe. In this example the datetime dtype is stored in a column named date.

Solution

You must convert the column to a datetime using pd.to_datetime and use Pandas dt function to access the time portion of the datetime field.

df['time_only'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
time_only = df['time_only'].dt.time
time_only