Converting pandas.tslib.Timestamp to datetime python

Question

I have a df time series. I extracted the indexes and want to convert them each to datetime. How do you go about doing that? I tried to use pa

Answer 1

Just try to_datetime()

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> t = pd.tslib.Timestamp('2016-03-03 00:00:00')
>>> type(t)
pandas.tslib.Timestamp
>>> t.to_datetime()  #Warning deprecated!
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 3, 0, 0)
>>> t.to_pydatetime()
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 3, 0, 0)

Change to datetime.date type

>>> t.date()
datetime.date(2016, 3, 3)

update

Thanks, @mjp, to_datetime() will be deprecated in the future, use to_pydatetime() instead!

In [4]: t.to_datetime()
/Users/qiuwei/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:2881: FutureWarning: to_datetime is deprecated. Use self.to_pydatetime()
  exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
Out[4]: datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 3, 0, 0)