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Expand Up @@ -79,6 +79,20 @@ def to_datetime(arg, errors='ignore', dayfirst=False, utc=None, box=True,
Returns
-------
ret : datetime if parsing succeeded

Examples
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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
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