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Anonymous

What about pandas python module.
pd.read_csv('my file.csv', parse_dates = ["date_column_name"])

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Shantanu Oak

As per the pandas documentation, using "infer_datetime_format=True" with pd.read_csv can increase the parsing speed by 5-10x

Peter Bengtsson

Tempting to try but parsing CSV is just a part of it. There's also triggering concurrency/parallelism, doing the gzip decompression, and doing the date parsing.