Converting between datetime, Timestamp and datetime64

Question

How do I convert a numpy.datetime64 object to a datetime.datetime (or Timestamp)?

In the following code, I create a datetime,

Answer 1

If you want to convert an entire pandas series of datetimes to regular python datetimes, you can also use .to_pydatetime().

pd.date_range('20110101','20110102',freq='H').to_pydatetime()

> [datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0) datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 1, 0)
   datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 2, 0) datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 3, 0)
   ....

It also supports timezones:

pd.date_range('20110101','20110102',freq='H').tz_localize('UTC').tz_convert('Australia/Sydney').to_pydatetime()

[ datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 11, 0, tzinfo=)
 datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 12, 0, tzinfo=)
....

NOTE: If you are operating on a Pandas Series you cannot call to_pydatetime() on the entire series. You will need to call .to_pydatetime() on each individual datetime64 using a list comprehension or something similar:

datetimes = [val.to_pydatetime() for val in df.problem_datetime_column]