Turn 2010 Q1 to datetime as 2010-3-31

Question

How to find a smart solution to turn Year_Q to datetime? I tried to use

pd.to_datetime(working_visa_nationality[\'Year_Q\'])

but got

Answer 1

I a bit changed MaxU answer:

df = pd.DataFrame({'Year_Q': ['2010 Q1', '2015 Q2']})

df['Dates']  = pd.PeriodIndex(df['Year_Q'].str.replace(' ', ''), freq='Q').to_timestamp()
print (df)
    Year_Q      Dates
0  2010 Q1 2010-01-01
1  2015 Q2 2015-04-01

EDIT:

df['Dates']  = pd.PeriodIndex(df['Year_Q'].str.replace(' ', ''), freq='Q').to_timestamp(how='e')
print (df)
    Year_Q      Dates
0  2010 Q1 2010-03-31
1  2015 Q2 2015-06-30