Converting PeriodIndex to DateTimeIndex?

Question

I have a question regarding converting a tseries.period.PeriodIndex into a datetime.

I have a DataFrame which looks like this:

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Answer 1

You can also use the following to get exactly the same result.

idx.astype('datetime64[ns]') 

To convert back to period, you can do:

 idx.to_period(freq='D')