Extract day and month from a datetime object

Question

I have a column with dates in string format \'2017-01-01\'. Is there a way to extract day and month from it using pandas?

I have converted the column to

Answer 1

This should do it:

df['day'] = df['Date'].apply(lambda r:r.day)
df['month'] = df['Date'].apply(lambda r:r.month)