PYTHON

extract year from datetime pandas

df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'],format='%Y%m%d')
df['year'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['date']).year
df['month'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['date']).month

to extract out only year month from a date column in pandas

df['month_year'] = df['date_column'].dt.to_period('M')

pandas extract month year from date

#if the date format comes in datetime, we can also extract the day/month/year using the to_period function
#where 'D', 'M', 'Y' are inputs
df['month_year'] = pd.to_datetime(df['birth_date']).dt.to_period('M')
df.head()

panda get year

df['year'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['ArrivalDate']).year
df['month'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['ArrivalDate']).month