[Tutor] genfromtxt and dtype to convert data to correct format

[Alan Gauld]

On 19/05/16 12:51, Ek Esawi wrote:
> Thanks again!
> 
> I tried a combination of the suggestions and still not getting what i want.
> 
> Here are the original code, file, and output.
> 
> CODE
> 
> mport csv; import numpy as np; from datetime import datetime, date, time
> 
> CF = lambda date: datetime.strptime(bytes.decode(date),
> '%m/%d/%Y').strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

Again you have strftime at the end so it will result in a string
output. You need to remove that if you want a date/time/datetime
object as a result.

That's assuming that it is a datetime style object that you want.

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