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I am able to read and slice pandas dataframe using python datetime objects, however I am forced to use only existing dates in index. For example, this works:

>>> data

DatetimeIndex: 252 entries, 2010-12-31 00:00:00 to 2010-04-01 00:00:00

Data columns:

Adj Close 252 non-null values

dtypes: float64(1)

>>> st = datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 31, 0, 0)

>>> en = datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 28, 0, 0)

>>> data[st:en]

Adj Close

Date

2010-12-31 593.97

2010-12-30 598.86

2010-12-29 601.00

2010-12-28 598.92

However if I use a start or end date that is not present in the DF, I get python KeyError.

My Question : How do I query the dataframe object for a date range; even when the start and end dates are not present in the DataFrame. Does p