class pandas.CategoricalIndex [source]
Immutable Index implementing an ordered, sliceable set. CategoricalIndex represents a sparsely populated Index with an underlying Categorical. New in version 0.16.1. Parameters:
data : array-like or Categorical, (1-dimensional) categories : optional, array-like categories for the CategoricalIndex ordered : boolean, designating if the categories are ordered copy : bool Make a copy of input ndarray name : object Name to be stored in the index