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'))

Answer 2

working_visa_nationality['Dates']  = pd.PeriodIndex(working_visa_nationality['Year_Q'].str.replace(' ', ''), freq='Q').to_timestamp() + pd.offsets.QuarterEnd()

working_visa_nationality['Dates']  = pd.PeriodIndex(working_visa_nationality['Year_Q'].str.replace(' ', ''), freq='Q').to_timestamp(how='end')

both of them work well. Thank you all and I did some experiment.

Answer 3

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