Convert numpy.datetime64 to string object in python

Question

I am having trouble converting a python datetime64 object into a string. For example:

t = numpy.datetime64(\'2012-06-30T20:00:00.000000000-0400\         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to do that conversion gobbledygook and are ok with just one date format, this was the best solution for me

str(t)[:10]
Out[11]: '2012-07-01'

As noted this works for pandas too

df['d'].astype(str).str[:10]
df['d'].dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') # equivalent