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Convert Strings To Dates

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Goal

This post aims to introduce how to convert strings to dates using pandas

Libraries

In [1]:
import pandas as pd

Date in string

In [3]:
df_date = pd.DataFrame({'date':['20190101', '20190102', '20190105'], 
                       'temperature': [23.5, 32, 25]})
df_date
Out[3]:
date temperature
0 20190101 23.5
1 20190102 32.0
2 20190105 25.0

Convert strings to date format

In [4]:
pd.to_datetime(df_date['date'])
Out[4]:
0   2019-01-01
1   2019-01-02
2   2019-01-05
Name: date, dtype: datetime64[ns]