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

My solution with regex.

df['Year_Q'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Year_Q'].str.replace(r'\ [Q1]+', '-3-31'))