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Teradata® Package for Python Function Reference on VantageCloud Lake
- Deployment
- VantageCloud
- Edition
- Lake
- Product
- Teradata Package for Python
- Release Number
- 20.00.00.08
- Published
- November 2025
- ft:locale
- en-US
- ft:lastEdition
- 2025-12-05
- dita:id
- TeradataPython_FxRef_Lake_2000
- Product Category
- Teradata Vantage
- teradataml.store.feature_store.models.FeatureProcess.start_time
- DESCRIPTION:
Returns the start time of the feature process.
PARAMETERS:
None
RETURNS:
datetime.datetime
RAISES:
None
EXAMPLES:
>>> from teradataml import DataFrame, load_example_data, FeatureProcess
>>> load_example_data('dataframe', ['sales'])
>>> df = DataFrame("sales")
>>> fp = FeatureProcess(repo="vfs_test",
... object=df,
... entity="accounts",
... features=["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr"]
... )
# Run the feature process.
>>> fp.run()
Process '587b9a68-7b57-11f0-abc5-a188eb171d46' started.
Process '587b9a68-7b57-11f0-abc5-a188eb171d46' completed.
True
# Get the start time of the feature process.
>>> fp.start_time
datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 1, 12, 0, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)