Timedeltas: Understand µs

Author: alvaroaleman

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst

@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ Other
 - Fixed bug in :func:`pandas.testing.assert_series_equal` where dtypes were checked for ``Interval`` and ``ExtensionArray`` operands when ``check_dtype`` was ``False`` (:issue:`32747`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.map` not raising on invalid ``na_action`` (:issue:`32815`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.__dir__` caused a segfault when using unicode surrogates in a column name (:issue:`25509`)
+- Timedeltas now understand µs as identifier for microsecond (:issue:`32899`)
 
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pandas/_libs/tslibs/timedeltas.pyx

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ cdef dict timedelta_abbrevs = {
     "us": "us",
     "microseconds": "us",
     "microsecond": "us",
+    "µs": "us",
     "micro": "us",
     "micros": "us",
     "u": "us",

pandas/tests/scalar/timedelta/test_constructors.py

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ def test_construction():
     assert Timedelta("1 milli") == timedelta(milliseconds=1)
     assert Timedelta("1 millisecond") == timedelta(milliseconds=1)
     assert Timedelta("1 us") == timedelta(microseconds=1)
+    assert Timedelta("1 µs") == timedelta(microseconds=1)
     assert Timedelta("1 micros") == timedelta(microseconds=1)
     assert Timedelta("1 microsecond") == timedelta(microseconds=1)
     assert Timedelta("1.5 microsecond") == Timedelta("00:00:00.000001500")