I agree with your votes here. I wasn't suggesting making the offsets
interned.
On Apr 14, 2014 9:37 PM, "Jeff Tratner" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In pandas/tseries/frequencies.py:
>
> > @@ -202,6 +207,9 @@ def get_period_alias(offset_str):
> >      'Q@FEB': 'BQ-FEB',
> >      'Q@MAR': 'BQ-MAR',
> >      'Q': 'Q-DEC',
> > +    'QS': 'QS-JAN',
> > +    'BQ': 'BQ-DEC',
>
> @cancan101 <https://github.com/cancan101> I'm +1 on equality, +0 on
> making names the same and -1 on making sure they are the same offset. It
> could happen to be that offset1 == offset2 implies offset1 is offset2,
> but that shouldn't be a property that is relied on or necessary.
>
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