astype datetime pandas code example

Example 1: convert column in pandas to datetime

df['col'] = pd.to_datetime(df['col'])

Example 2: change dataframe column type

>>> df.astype({'col1': 'int32'}).dtypes
col1    int32
col2    int64
dtype: object

Example 3: convert a number column into datetime pandas

# convert the 'Date' column to datetime format
df['Date']= pd.to_datetime(df['Date'])
 
# Check the format of 'Date' column
df.info()

Example 4: pandas astype datetime

# converting the string to datetime format
df['Dates'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Dates'], format='%y%m%d')
 
# printing dataframe
print(df)
print(df.dtypes)