CategoricalIndex.astype()

CategoricalIndex.astype(dtype, copy=True) [source]

Create an Index with values cast to dtypes. The class of a new Index is determined by dtype. When conversion is impossible, a ValueError exception is raised.

Parameters:

Parameters:	dtype : numpy dtype or pandas type copy : bool, default True By default, astype always returns a newly allocated object. If copy is set to False and internal requirements on dtype are satisfied, the original data is used to create a new Index or the original Index is returned. New in version 0.19.0.

dtype : numpy dtype or pandas type

copy : bool, default True

By default, astype always returns a newly allocated object. If copy is set to False and internal requirements on dtype are satisfied, the original data is used to create a new Index or the original Index is returned.

New in version 0.19.0.

Links:

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.19.2/generated/pandas.CategoricalIndex.astype.html

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2017-01-12 04:44:33

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