Extracting just Month and Year separately from Pandas Datetime column

Question

I have a Dataframe, df, with the following column:

df[\'ArrivalDate\'] =
...
936   2012-12-31
938   2012-12-29
965   2012-12-31
966   2012-12-31
967   2012-1         


        

Answer 1

If you want the month year unique pair, using apply is pretty sleek.

df['mnth_yr'] = df['date_column'].apply(lambda x: x.strftime('%B-%Y')) 

Outputs month-year in one column.

Don't forget to first change the format to date-time before, I generally forget.

df['date_column'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date_column'])