Converting string to date in the most concise way in a Pandas DataFrame

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I loaded a DataFrame from a csv file and one column contains a date/time string, in order to convert it to an actual date object I am currently doing this:

mydata["date_time"] = pd.to_datetime(mydata["date_time"], errors='raise')

However I feel like there may be a more concise way of doing this but can't find it.

Am I doing things right or is there a better alternative?

BENY · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-25 01:11:14Z

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I will convert to date time with read_csv

df = pd.read_csv('yourfile.csv', parse_dates=['date_time'])

answered May 25, 2021 at 1:11

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