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shitake
shitake

Reputation: 1

Convert date type object to datetime

I have a dataframe with Date_Birth in the following format: July 1, 1991 (as type object). How can I change the entire column to datetime?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1353

Answers (1)

tdelaney
tdelaney

Reputation: 77407

Use the pandas.to_datetime function. You can write out a format specifier in the strptime format or have python guess the format. In your case, guessing works.

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df=pd.DataFrame({"Date":["July 1, 1991"]})
>>> pd.to_datetime(df["Date"], format="%B %d, %Y") 
0   1991-07-01
Name: Date, dtype: datetime64[ns]
>>> pd.to_datetime(df["Date"], infer_datetime_format=True) 
0   1991-07-01
Name: Date, dtype: datetime64[ns]

Upvotes: 1

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