title: Read csv with dd.mm.yyyy in Python and Pandas
body: <p>I am reading a csv file with German date format.
  Seems like it worked ok in this post:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28025671/picking-dates-from-an-imported-csv-with-pandas-python">Picking dates from an imported CSV with pandas/python</a></p>
  
  <p>However, it seems like in my case the date is not recognized as such.
  I could not find any wrong string in the test file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  import numpy as np
  
  
  %matplotlib inline
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
  from matplotlib import style
  from pandas import DataFrame
  
  style.use('ggplot')
  
  df = pd.read_csv('testdata.csv', dayfirst=True, parse_dates=True)
  df[:5]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ei5JK.png" alt="table"></p>
  
  <p>This results in:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OV1h8.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
  
  <p>So, the Column with the dates is not recognized as such.
  What am I doing wrong here?
  Or is this date format simply not compatible?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>OSX 10.10.3</li>
  <li>Anaconda conda 3.13.0</li>
  <li>Python 3.4.3-0</li>
  <li>iPython notebook 3.1.0</li>
  </ul>