Accessing `.days` for pandas timedeltas series

A pandas TimedeltaIndex

has an attribute days

that can be used to operate on other normal dtypes ( float64

etc.):

import pandas as pd
from pandas.tseries import offsets
idx1 = pd.date_range('2017-01', periods=10)
idx2 = idx1 + offsets.MonthEnd(1)
tds = idx2 - idx1

print(tds.days - 2)
Int64Index([28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19], dtype='int64')

      

        
        
        
      

    

But when tds

converted to a series (explicitly or as a DataFrame column), it loses this attribute.

print(pd.Series(tds).days)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-115-cb20b4d368f4> in <module>()
----> 1 print(pd.Series(tds).days)

C:\Users\bsolomon\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\generic.py in __getattr__(self, name)
   3079             if name in self._info_axis:
   3080                 return self[name]
-> 3081             return object.__getattribute__(self, name)
   3082 
   3083     def __setattr__(self, name, value):

AttributeError: 'Series' object has no attribute 'days'

      

        
        
        
      

    

And accessing .days

requires converting back to Index

:

print(pd.Index(pd.Series(tds)).days)
Int64Index([30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21], dtype='int64')

      

        
        
        
      

    

Is there an easier way to access this attribute than with the transformation above?