From 7d7d210cc40206564d63e4b0d1239eef0e987173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Hammerbacher <hammer@Jeff-Hammerbachers-MacBook-Pro.local>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:48:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: add .head() and .tail() to Series

---
 pandas/core/series.py       | 10 ++++++++++
 pandas/tests/test_series.py |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pandas/core/series.py b/pandas/core/series.py
index 9015b5ee7d..6a1259ee27 100644
--- a/pandas/core/series.py
+++ b/pandas/core/series.py
@@ -553,6 +553,16 @@ def get(self, key, default=None):
         else:
             return default
 
+    def head(self, n=5):
+        """Returns first n rows of Series
+        """
+        return self[:n]
+
+    def tail(self, n=5):
+        """Returns last n rows of Series
+        """
+        return self[-n:]
+
     #----------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Statistics, overridden ndarray methods
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_series.py b/pandas/tests/test_series.py
index 6c909f6d40..5098ad6e4f 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_series.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_series.py
@@ -1244,6 +1244,10 @@ def test_unstack(self):
         unstacked = s.unstack(0)
         assert_frame_equal(unstacked, expected)
 
+    def test_head_tail(self):
+        assert_frame_equal(self.series.head(), self.series[:5])
+        assert_frame_equal(self.series.tail(), self.series[-5:])
+
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # TimeSeries-specific