``` In [2]: df = DataFrame({'dates': date_range('20010101', periods=10)}) In [3]: Timestamp('20010109') < df.dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-3-713f2b228d0e> in <module>() ----> 1 Timestamp('20010109') < df.dates /home/phillip/Documents/code/py/pandas/pandas/tslib.so in pandas.tslib._Timestamp.__richcmp__ (pandas/tslib.c:9555)() TypeError: Cannot compare Timestamp with 'Series' ``` but when a `Series` is on the left hand side, things go swimmingly: ``` In [4]: df.dates < Timestamp('20010109') Out[4]: 0 True 1 True 2 True 3 True 4 True 5 True 6 True 7 True 8 False 9 False Name: dates, dtype: bool ```