How to define format when using pandas to_datetime?

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The format you are passing is invalid. The dash between the % and the I is not supposed to be there.

df['TIME'] = pd.to_datetime(df['TIME'], format="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p")

This will convert your TIME column to a datetime.

Alternatively, you can adjust your read_csv call to do this:

pd.read_csv('testresult.csv', parse_dates=['TIME'], 
    date_parser=lambda x: pd.to_datetime(x, format="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p"))

Again, this uses the appropriate format with out the extra -, but it also passes in the format to the date_parser parameter instead of having pandas attempt to guess it with the infer_datetime_format parameter.

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