pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionArray.repeat¶
- ExtensionArray.repeat(repeats, axis=None)[source]¶
Repeat elements of a ExtensionArray.
Returns a new ExtensionArray where each element of the current ExtensionArray is repeated consecutively a given number of times.
- Parameters
- repeatsint or array of ints
The number of repetitions for each element. This should be a non-negative integer. Repeating 0 times will return an empty ExtensionArray.
- axisNone
Must be
None. Has no effect but is accepted for compatibility with numpy.
- Returns
- repeated_arrayExtensionArray
Newly created ExtensionArray with repeated elements.
See also
Series.repeatEquivalent function for Series.
Index.repeatEquivalent function for Index.
numpy.repeatSimilar method for
numpy.ndarray.ExtensionArray.takeTake arbitrary positions.
Examples
>>> cat = pd.Categorical(['a', 'b', 'c']) >>> cat ['a', 'b', 'c'] Categories (3, object): ['a', 'b', 'c'] >>> cat.repeat(2) ['a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'] Categories (3, object): ['a', 'b', 'c'] >>> cat.repeat([1, 2, 3]) ['a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c'] Categories (3, object): ['a', 'b', 'c']