Convert pandas series to string and datetime object

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On 2017-09-21 20:27, zljubisic at gmail.com wrote:
> I have sliced the pandas dataframe
> 
> end_date = df[-1:]['end']
> 
> type(end_date)
> Out[4]: pandas.core.series.Series
> 
> end_date
> Out[3]:
> 48173   2017-09-20 04:47:59
> Name: end, dtype: datetime64[ns]
> 
> 1.	How to get rid of index value 48173 and get only "2017-09-20 04:47:59" string? I have to call REST API with "2017-09-20 04:47:59" as a parameter, so I have to get string from pandas datetime64 series.
> 2.	How to get rid of index value 48173 and get only datetime object [something like datetime.datetime.strptime('2017-09-20 04:47:59', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')]. Later I will have to check if '2017-09-20 04:47:59' < datetime.datetime(2017,1,9)
> 
> How to do these conversions?
> 
The docs say that pandas.Series is "One-dimensional ndarray with axis 
labels (including time series)", so have you tried indexing, such as 
end_date[1]?