From 380e54e08c96a7d4893343cc5b671f96c54980e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alexander135 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:50:13 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Changed description of parse_dates in read_excel(). --- pandas/io/excel/_base.py | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pandas/io/excel/_base.py b/pandas/io/excel/_base.py index e615507b4199d..c442f0d9bf66c 100644 --- a/pandas/io/excel/_base.py +++ b/pandas/io/excel/_base.py @@ -165,8 +165,9 @@ result 'foo' If a column or index contains an unparseable date, the entire column or - index will be returned unaltered as an object data type. For non-standard - datetime parsing, use ``pd.to_datetime`` after ``pd.read_excel``. + index will be returned unaltered as an object data type. If you don`t want to + parse some cells as date just change their type in Excel to "Text". + For non-standard datetime parsing, use ``pd.to_datetime`` after ``pd.read_excel``. Note: A fast-path exists for iso8601-formatted dates. date_parser : function, optional