How do I convert dates in a Pandas data frame to a 'date' data type?

Question

I have a Pandas data frame, one of the column contains date strings in the format YYYY-MM-DD

For e.g. \'2013-10-28\'

At the moment th

Answer 1

Now you can do df['column'].dt.date

Note that for datetime objects, if you don't see the hour when they're all 00:00:00, that's not pandas. That's iPython notebook trying to make things look pretty.