In Pandas, how to convert a string to a datetime object with milliseconds?

Question

I have a column of event\'s timestamp in my dataframe, looks like \"2016-06-10 18:58:25:675\", the last 3 digits are milliseconds, is there a efficient way to transform this

Answer 1

Something like this should work

pd.to_datetime('2016-06-10 18:57:35:317', format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S:%f")

You can look up datetime formats here

Answer 2

Normally there is a period / full-stop between the seconds and microseconds.

Since your data does not have that you can specify how your data is formatted:

pd.to_datetime('2016-06-10 18:57:35:317', format='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S:%f')