From hours to String

I have this df:

Index          Dates
  0     2017-01-01 23:30:00
  1     2017-01-12 22:30:00
  2     2017-01-20 13:35:00
  3     2017-01-21 14:25:00
  4     2017-01-28 22:30:00
  5     2017-08-01 13:00:00
  6     2017-09-26 09:39:00
  7     2017-10-08 06:40:00 
  8     2017-10-04 07:30:00
  9     2017-12-13 07:40:00
  10    2017-12-31 14:55:00

The purpose was that between the time ranges 5:00 to 11:59 a new df would be created with data that would say: morning. To achieve this I converted those hours to booleans:

hour_morning=(pd.to_datetime(df['Dates']).dt.strftime('%H:%M:%S').between('05:00:00','11:59:00'))

and then passed them to a list with "morning" str

text_morning=[str('morning') for x in hour_morning if x==True]

I have the error in the last line because it only returns ´morning´ string values, it is as if the ‘X’ ignored the ‘if’ condition. Why is this happening and how do i fix it?

>Solution :

Do

text_morning=[str('morning') if x==True else 'not_morning' for x in hour_morning ]

You can also use np.where:

text_morning = np.where(hour_morning, 'morning', 'not morning')