DOC: pd to_datetime

[PabloRuizCuevas]

Pandas version checks

• I have checked that the issue still exists on the latest versions of the docs on main here

Location of the documentation

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.to_datetime.html

Documentation problem

in pandas to datetime we find that the default value of the parameter exact is:

exact=_NoDefault.no_default

which i don't know what does it mean, on top of that there is inconsistent breaking behavior from last version when parsing:
"%Y-%m-%d" if a date contains %H:%M:%S so for me they have changed the default value from false to true in pandas v2

Suggested fix for documentation

Probably now should be true before it was false

[Ruth-Nadel]

take

[cemmanuelsr]

take

[Nrezhang]

take

[Nrezhang]

is there a reason that exact is exact: bool | lib.NoDefault = lib.no_default, and not exact: bool = True? Should the documentation be changed to be consistent with what is written or is it ok to change it to exact: bool = True

[Aloqeely]

Thank you for this report, I believe this issue is already resolved, if you scroll down in the documentation to the parameters section, you can see it says the default value for exact is in fact True.

[lithomas1]

Yep, I think this is closable now.

The parameter should still show up as no_default in the header section i.e.

but I don't think there's a way to change that as it is autogenerated.