pandera.engines.pandas_engine.Category#

class pandera.engines.pandas_engine.Category(categories=None, ordered=False)[source]#

Semantic representation of a pandas.CategoricalDtype.

Attributes

`auto_coerce`	Whether to force coerce to be True in all cases
`categories`
`continuous`	Whether the number data type is continuous.
`ordered`
`type`	Native pandas dtype boxed by the data type.

Methods

`__init__`
`check`	Check that pandera `DataType` are equivalent.
`coerce`	Pure coerce without catching exceptions.
`coerce_value`	Coerce an value to a particular type.
`from_parametrized_dtype`	Convert a categorical to a Pandera `pandera.dtypes.pandas_engine.Category`.
`try_coerce`	Coerce data container to the data type, raises a `ParserError` if the coercion fails :raises: `ParserError`: if coercion fails
`__call__`	Coerce data container to the data type.