How to preserve date format when creating an Excel file?

Question

I have an .xlsx file that I import into Python and create a Pandas dataframe. One of the columns in the .xlsx file is formatted as a date, mm-dd-yyyy and gets i

Answer 1

Try this:

writer = pd.ExcelWriter('Sample_Master_Data_edited.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter', 
                        date_format='mm/dd/yyyy', datetime_format='mm/dd/yyyy')