pandas.api.extensions.register_extension_dtype

pandas.api.extensions.register_extension_dtype(cls)

Register an ExtensionType with pandas as class decorator.

New in version 0.24.0.

This enables operations like .astype(name) for the name of the ExtensionDtype.

Returns

callable

A class decorator.

Examples

>>> from pandas.api.extensions import register_extension_dtype
>>> from pandas.api.extensions import ExtensionDtype
>>> @register_extension_dtype
... class MyExtensionDtype(ExtensionDtype):
...     name = "myextension"

Extensions pandas.api.extensions.register_dataframe_accessor