1,string变成datetime格式
dates = pd.to_datetime(pd.Series([‘20010101’, ‘20010331’]), format = ‘%Y%m%d’)
2,datetime变回string格式
dates.apply(lambda x: x.strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d’))
source:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30132282/datetime-to-string-with-series-in-python-pandas