extract date from datetime pandas code example

Example 1: pandas datetime show only date

# Changing object type column to datetime
df['date_col'] = pd.to_datetime(df.date_col)

# Creating new column with just the date
df['new_date_col'] = df['date_col'].dt.date

Example 2: extract DATE from pandas

import pandas as pd

d='2015-01-08 22:44:09' 
date=pd.to_datetime(d).date()
print(date)