pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionArray.repeat — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)
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: | repeats : int 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. axis : None Must be None. Has no effect but is accepted for compatibility with numpy. |
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| Returns: | repeated_array : ExtensionArray Newly created ExtensionArray with repeated elements. |
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]