Find start & end of consecutive weekday within a list of dates in Python-CodePudding

I have a series of dates that only contains weekdays (no weekends)

from datetime import datetime as dtm
df=pd.DataFrame([dtm(2022,3,1),dtm(2022,3,2),dtm(2022,3,3),dtm(2022, 4, 15),dtm(2022,4,18),dtm(2022,4,19),dtm(2022,4,20)],columns=['dates'])


dates
0   2022-03-01
1   2022-03-02
2   2022-03-03
3   2022-04-15
4   2022-04-18
5   2022-04-19
6   2022-04-20

I want to create a dataframe where only start and end dates of consecutive WEEKDAY dates, using the above example, the desired output is

    dates
0   2022-03-01
1   2022-03-03
2   2022-04-15
3   2022-04-20

CodePudding user response：

Use DataFrame.groupby for difference between days if greater like 7 with aggregate min and max datetimes, then reshape by DataFrame.stack:

df = (df.groupby((~df['dates'].diff().dt.days.le(7)).cumsum())['dates']
        .agg(['min','max'])
        .stack()
        .reset_index(drop=True))
print (df)
0   2022-03-01
1   2022-03-03
2   2022-04-15
3   2022-04-20
dtype: datetime64[ns]