API: parsing Timestamp("2014Q2")

[jbrockmendel]

>>> pd.Timestamp("2014Q2")
Timestamp('2014-04-01 00:00:00')

It isn't obvious to me that we should allow this. We could reasonably raise and tell users to call pd.Period instead.

[MarcoGorelli]

it goes down the (overly) flexible format='mixed' path (there's no warning in this case because it's only a single element, but multiple elements would warn)

there's no format directive for "quarter" in https://strftime.org/, I don't think any other library would parse this as a datetime

+1 for deprecating

[rmhowe425]

take