Converting Pandas DatetimeIndex to a numeric format

Question

I want to convert the DatetimeIndex in my DataFrame to float format,which can be analysed in my model.Could someone tell me how to do it? Do I need to use date2num()functio

Answer 1

I believe this offers another solution, here assuming a dataframe with a DatetimeIndex.

pd.to_numeric(df.index, downcast='float')
# although normally I would prefer an integer, and to coerce errors to NaN
pd.to_numeric(df.index, errors = 'coerce',downcast='integer')