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Yichen Ye
Yichen Ye

Reputation: 11

Why my Parse Date does not work in the Jupyter

import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_csv("c://test//AAPL.csv", parse_dates("Date"), index_col=["Date"])

Error message as below: I am a beginner, sorry

NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-7cc4dcacdd2e> in <module>()
      1 import pandas as pd
----> 2 df=pd.read_csv("c://test//AAPL.csv", parse_dates("Date"), index_col=["Date"])
      3 df

NameError: name 'parse_dates' is not defined

Upvotes: 1

Views: 455

Answers (1)

Andy Hayden
Andy Hayden

Reputation: 375575

parse_dates is kwarg to read_csv:

df=pd.read_csv("c://test//AAPL.csv", parse_dates=["Date"], index_col=["Date"])

You were calling it like a function, hence the NameError.

Upvotes: 3

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