How to change date type from 'year_week' to 'day_month_year' format in pandas dataframe?

Question

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I have a dataset but date is given in year_week format. I want to change it to normal 'day_month_year' format and set it as an index.

df["Date"] = df["year_week"].astype(str)
df["Date"]=pd.to_datetime(df["Date"])
df['Date'] = df['Date'].dt.strptime("{}-{}-1".format(int(df['Date'].split('-')[0]),  int(df['Date'].split('-')[1])), '%Y-%W-%w')
df.set_index('Date',inplace=True)
df.drop('year_week',inplace=True,axis=1)
df.head()

but it gives bad month numver 13; must be 1-12 error your text

Answer 1

append the weekday as a string (see also: strftime/strptime formatting codes ), parse to datetime, then format to string in desired format:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({"year_week": ["2020-01", "2020-02"]})

# parse to datetime, then format to string
df["day_month_year"] = pd.to_datetime(df["year_week"]+"-0", format="%Y-%W-%w").dt.strftime("%d-%m-%Y")

print(df)
  year_week day_month_year
0   2020-01     12-01-2020
1   2020-02     19-01-2020