pandas.Categorical.codes

property Categorical.codes

The category codes of this categorical index.

Codes are an array of integers which are the positions of the actual values in the categories array.

There is no setter, use the other categorical methods and the normal item setter to change values in the categorical.

Returns:

ndarray[int]

A non-writable view of the codes array.

See also

Categorical.from_codes

Make a Categorical from codes.

CategoricalIndex

An Index with an underlying Categorical.

Examples

For pandas.Categorical:

>>> cat = pd.Categorical(["a", "b"], ordered=True)
>>> cat.codes
array([0, 1], dtype=int8)

For pandas.CategoricalIndex:

>>> ci = pd.CategoricalIndex(["a", "b", "c", "a", "b", "c"])
>>> ci.codes
array([0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2], dtype=int8)

>>> ci = pd.CategoricalIndex(["a", "c"], categories=["c", "b", "a"])
>>> ci.codes
array([2, 0], dtype=int8)