From d7f2d1d7d06c9590b032174d16fe4e9b7161cbfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skipper Seabold Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 19:10:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Add two examples to to_datetime --- pandas/tseries/tools.py | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/pandas/tseries/tools.py b/pandas/tseries/tools.py index d3c686cbfa4d2..2d4f27cb12ece 100644 --- a/pandas/tseries/tools.py +++ b/pandas/tseries/tools.py @@ -79,6 +79,20 @@ def to_datetime(arg, errors='ignore', dayfirst=False, utc=None, box=True, Returns ------- ret : datetime if parsing succeeded + + Examples + -------- + Take separate series and convert to datetime + + >>> import pandas as pd + >>> i = pd.date_range('20000101',periods=100) + >>> df = pd.DataFrame(dict(year = i.year, month = i.month, day = i.day)) + >>> pd.to_datetime(df.year*10000 + df.month*100 + df.day, format='%Y%m%d') + + Or from strings + + >>> df = df.astype(str) + >>> pd.to_datetime(df.day + df.month + df.year, format="%d%m%Y") """ from pandas import Timestamp from pandas.core.series import Series