Quoting from Pandas document example :
```>>> quotes time ticker bid ask 0 2016-05-25 13:30:00.023 GOOG 720.50 720.93 1 2016-05-25 13:30:00.023 MSFT 51.95 51.96 2 2016-05-25 13:30:00.030 MSFT 51.97 51.98 3 2016-05-25 13:30:00.041 MSFT 51.99 52.00 4 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 GOOG 720.50 720.93 5 2016-05-25 13:30:00.049 AAPL 97.99 98.01 6 2016-05-25 13:30:00.072 GOOG 720.50 720.88 7 2016-05-25 13:30:00.075 MSFT 52.01 52.03
trades time ticker price quantity 0 2016-05-25 13:30:00.023 MSFT 51.95 75 1 2016-05-25 13:30:00.038 MSFT 51.95 155 2 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 GOOG 720.77 100 3 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 GOOG 720.92 100 4 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 AAPL 98.00 100
pd.merge_asof(trades, quotes, ... on='time', ... by='ticker', ... tolerance=pd.Timedelta('10ms'), ... allow_exact_matches=False) time ticker price quantity bid ask 0 2016-05-25 13:30:00.023 MSFT 51.95 75 NaN NaN 1 2016-05-25 13:30:00.038 MSFT 51.95 155 51.97 51.98 2 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 GOOG 720.77 100 NaN NaN 3 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 GOOG 720.92 100 NaN NaN 4 2016-05-25 13:30:00.048 AAPL 98.00 100 NaN NaN ```
Above example merges only when the time gap is strictly less than '10ms', with direction='backward'.
I'm wondering if I can use a range of tolerance like between 10ms and 20ms? The expected output would be such that it merges the closest one that happened more than 10 ms before, but not more than 20 ms(direction ='backward').
Comment From: mroeschke
Thanks for the enhancement request, but it appears this hasn't gained much interested from the core team or community in a while so closing. Can reopen if there's renewed interest