SQLite doesn’t support a specific “date” type - only null / integer / real / text / blob
That’s not the arguments that from_iso8601 is documented to accept; why would you expect that to work? The second argument should be a calendar module and the third should be either :basic or :extended.
To your original question, the Series.strptime function seems like exactly what you’re looking for - takes a series of string values and parses them into a datetime series.
