pandas.StringDtype#

class pandas.StringDtype(storage=None, na_value=<NA>)[source]#

Extension dtype for string data.

The data is stored as Python str objects or in a PyArrow array, depending on storage. See Working with text data for details.

Parameters:

storage{“python”, “pyarrow”}, optional: If not given, the value of pd.options.mode.string_storage.
na_value{np.nan, pd.NA}, default pd.NA: Whether the dtype follows NaN or NA missing value semantics.

Attributes

`storage`	The storage backend for this dtype.
`na_value`	The missing value representation for this dtype.

See also

Examples

>>> pd.StringDtype()
<StringDtype(na_value=<NA>)>

>>> pd.StringDtype(storage="python")
<StringDtype(storage='python', na_value=<NA>)>