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

Another way to do this and this works well if you have multiple columns to convert to datetime.

cols = ['date1','date2']
df[cols] = df[cols].apply(pd.to_datetime)