Leave dates as strings using read_excel function from pandas in python

Question

Python 2.7.10
Tried pandas 0.17.1 -- function read_excel
Tried pyexcel 0.1.7 + pyexcel-xlsx 0.0.7 -- function get_records()

Answer 1

• Using converters{'Date': str} option inside the pandas.read_excel which helps. pandas.read_excel(xlsx, sheet, converters={'Date': str})
• you can try convert your timestamp back to the original format
  df['Date'][0].strftime('%Y/%m/%d')