pandas.Index.factorize — pandas 0.18.1 documentation (original) (raw)

Index.factorize(sort=False, na_sentinel=-1)

Encode the object as an enumerated type or categorical variable

Parameters: sort : boolean, default False Sort by values na_sentinel: int, default -1 Value to mark “not found”
Returns: labels : the indexer to the original array uniques : the unique Index