Используйте DataFrame.itertuples
:
L = [pd.Series(pd.date_range(r.START_DATE, r.END_DATE)) for r in df.itertuples()]
Или zip обоих столбцов:
L = [pd.Series(pd.date_range(s, e)) for s, e in zip(df['START_DATE'], df['END_DATE'])]
Если хотите объединиться:
s = pd.concat(L, ignore_index=True)
Производительность для 100 строк:
np.random.seed(123)
def random_dates(start, end, n=100):
start_u = start.value//10**9
end_u = end.value//10**9
return pd.to_datetime(np.random.randint(start_u, end_u, n), unit='s')
start = pd.to_datetime('2015-01-01')
end = pd.to_datetime('2018-01-01')
df = pd.DataFrame({'START_DATE': start, 'END_DATE':random_dates(start, end)})
print (df)
In [155]: %timeit [pd.Series(pd.date_range(row[1].START_DATE, row[1].END_DATE)) for row in df[['START_DATE', 'END_DATE']].iterrows()]
33.5 ms ± 145 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
In [156]: %timeit [pd.date_range(row[1].START_DATE, row[1].END_DATE) for row in df[['START_DATE', 'END_DATE']].iterrows()]
30.3 ms ± 1.91 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
In [157]: %timeit [pd.Series(pd.date_range(r.START_DATE, r.END_DATE)) for r in df.itertuples()]
25.3 ms ± 218 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
In [158]: %timeit [pd.Series(pd.date_range(s, e)) for s, e in zip(df['START_DATE'], df['END_DATE'])]
24.3 ms ± 594 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
И для 1000 строк:
start = pd.to_datetime('2015-01-01')
end = pd.to_datetime('2018-01-01')
df = pd.DataFrame({'START_DATE': start, 'END_DATE':random_dates(start, end, n=1000)})
In [159]: %timeit [pd.Series(pd.date_range(row[1].START_DATE, row[1].END_DATE)) for row in df[['START_DATE', 'END_DATE']].iterrows()]
333 ms ± 3.32 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
In [160]: %timeit [pd.date_range(row[1].START_DATE, row[1].END_DATE) for row in df[['START_DATE', 'END_DATE']].iterrows()]
314 ms ± 36.3 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
In [161]: %timeit [pd.Series(pd.date_range(s, e)) for s, e in zip(df['START_DATE'], df['END_DATE'])]
243 ms ± 1.49 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
In [162]: %timeit [pd.Series(pd.date_range(r.START_DATE, r.END_DATE)) for r in df.itertuples()]
246 ms ± 2.93 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)