Python 2.7.10
Tried pandas 0.17.1 -- function read_excel
Tried pyexcel 0.1.7 + pyexcel-xlsx 0.0.7 -- function get_records()
When using pandas in Python is it possible to read excel files (formats: xls|xlsx) and leave columns containing date or date + time values as strings rather than auto-converting to datetime.datetime or timestamp types?
If this is not possible using pandas can someone suggest an alternate method/library to read xls|xlsx files and leave date column values as strings?
For the pandas solution attempts the df.info() and resultant date column types are shown below:
>>> df.info()
Int64Index: 117 entries, 0 to 116
Columns: 176 entries, Mine to Index
dtypes: datetime64[ns](2), float64(145), int64(26), object(3)
memory usage: 161.8+ KB
>>> type(df['Start Date'