ANN: db-dtypes v0.1.0 -- request for feedback on new extension dtypes

[Tim Swast]

We've just released a new db-dtypes package and would like to hear your thoughts.

This package introduces two new extension dtypes to pandas: "time" and "date"

Goals of the package include:

• Provide a natural mapping to/from database-like systems such as BigQuery, which provide a TIME and DATE data type.
• Natural mapping to/from existing conventions for date and time data. For example, a common convention for date columns is to represent them as datetime64 values @ midnight. Also, it's common to represent time columns as datetime.time objects with object dtype (such as is done in read_sql).
• It should also be possible to combine data and time values to create datetime values.

Please take these for a spin and let us know if they don't meet your expectations by filing an issue on GitHub.

Resources:

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/db-dtypes/
  
• Reference documentation: https://googleapis.dev/python/db-dtypes/latest
• Source code: https://github.com/googleapis/python-db-dtypes-pandas
• Code samples: https://github.com/googleapis/python-db-dtypes-pandas/blob/main/samples/snippets/pandas_date_and_time.py

Thanks for you help!