pandas.Categorical.dtype

property Categorical.dtype

The CategoricalDtype for this instance.

See also

astype

Cast argument to a specified dtype.

CategoricalDtype

Type for categorical data.

Examples

>>> cat = pd.Categorical(["a", "b"], ordered=True)
>>> cat
['a', 'b']
Categories (2, str): ['a' < 'b']
>>> cat.dtype
CategoricalDtype(categories=['a', 'b'], ordered=True, categories_dtype=str)