Separating date and year, converting to datetime and creating a new column

Question

Convert the date column to a datetime type.
Create a new column, issue_year, and set it to the year from date column.

I need to separate a date in the format ‘Dec-11’ into month and year. Dec being the month and 11 being the year.

I need to also create a new column for the year.

All data needs to be converted to datetime type.

I have tried:

loan_df.issue_d = pd.to_datetime(loan_df.issue_d, errors='coerce',format='%Y%m')

I am getting an NaT error when I run loan_df.issue_d.head()

But obviously I am missing something. Any suggestions all?

    print(loan_df['issue_d'].head())
    0    Dec-11
    1    Dec-11
    2    Dec-11
    3    Dec-11
    4    Dec-11
    Name: issue_d, dtype: object

Asked By: ric_m

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Answer 1

You can try format="%b-%y":

df['new_issue_d'] = pd.to_datetime(df['issue_d'], format='%b-%y')
print(df)

Prints:

  issue_d new_issue_d
0  Dec-11  2011-12-01
1  Jan-11  2011-01-01
2  Feb-13  2013-02-01

Answer 2

If you want keep the issue_date format:

loan_df['issue_year'] = pd.to_datetime(loan_df['issue_date'], format='%b-%y').dt.year
print(loan_df)

  issue_date  issue_year
0     Dec-11        2011
1     Dec-11        2011
2     Dec-11        2011
3     Dec-11        2011

If you want to format issue_date :

loan_df['issue_date'] = pd.to_datetime(loan_df['issue_date'], format='%b-%y')
loan_df['issue_year'] = loan_df['issue_date'].dt.year
print(loan_df)

  issue_date  issue_year
0 2011-12-01        2011
1 2011-12-01        2011
2 2011-12-01        2011
3 2011-12-01        2011

Answered By: Jamiu S.

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