理解offset in Python

• Overview

  在Python函数中，经常出现offset相关参数。

  大概理解是与频率、位置之类的概念相关，具体怎么理解呢？

• Offset alias in Pandas

  From Pandas (notes its pandas not python) docs: Time series / date functionality

  A number of string aliases are given to useful common time series frequencies. We will refer to these aliases as offset aliases.

  Alias	Description
  B	business day frequency
  C	custom business day frequency
  D	calendar day frequency
  W	weekly frequency
  M	month end frequency
  SM	semi-month end frequency (15th and end of month)
  BM	business month end frequency
  CBM	custom business month end frequency
  MS	month start frequency
  SMS	semi-month start frequency (1st and 15th)
  BMS	business month start frequency
  CBMS	custom business month start frequency
  Q	quarter end frequency
  BQ	business quarter end frequency
  QS	quarter start frequency
  BQS	business quarter start frequency
  A, Y	year end frequency
  BA, BY	business year end frequency
  AS, YS	year start frequency
  BAS, BYS	business year start frequency
  BH	business hour frequency
  H	hourly frequency
  T, min	minutely frequency
  S	secondly frequency
  L, ms	milliseconds
  U, us	microseconds
  N	nanoseconds

• Offset in Python

  From fileObject.seek(offset[, whence]), offset is the postion of the read/write pointer within the file;

  From [1], Offset is a positional distance, typically between the beginning of something and the position of interest.

• Summary

  offset理解为偏移，positional distance.

• References

1. StockOverflow: What do “chunk”, “block”, “offset”, “buffer”, and “sector” mean?