Converting between datetime, Timestamp and datetime64

Question

How do I convert a numpy.datetime64 object to a datetime.datetime (or Timestamp)?

In the following code, I create a datetime,

Answer 1

Some solutions work well for me but numpy will deprecate some parameters. The solution that work better for me is to read the date as a pandas datetime and excract explicitly the year, month and day of a pandas object. The following code works for the most common situation.

def format_dates(dates):
    dt = pd.to_datetime(dates)
    try: return [datetime.date(x.year, x.month, x.day) for x in dt]    
    except TypeError: return datetime.date(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day)