Convert Strings To Dates

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Goal¶

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

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import pandas as pd

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df_date = pd.DataFrame({'date':['20190101', '20190102', '20190105'], 
                       'temperature': [23.5, 32, 25]})
df_date

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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]