Categorical.from_codes shouldn't coerce to int64 · Issue #18501 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Description

Categorical.from_codes coerces its input to an array of np.int64 unconditionally even though the Categorical constructor immediately coerces the input to some other dtype using coerce_indexer_dtype. This coercion might cause a memory usage spike when codes is large. ISTM that we can just avoid the conversion in from_codes entirely and let coerce_indexer_dtype take care of any error case.

Version: master