Determine Period Index and Column for DataFrame in Pandas

In Pandas to determine Period Index and Column for Data Frame, we will use the pandas.period_range() method. It is one of the general functions in Pandas that is used to return a fixed frequency PeriodIndex, with day (calendar) as the default frequency.

Syntax: pandas.to_numeric(arg, errors=’raise’, downcast=None)

Parameters:
start : Left bound for generating periods
end : Right bound for generating periods
periods : Number of periods to generate
freq : Frequency alias
name : Name of the resulting PeriodIndex

Returns: PeriodIndex

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