str.cat inconsistent for CategoricalIndex · Issue #20842 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Description

The str.cat-accessor works for CategoricalIndex as target, but not as caller. This is inconsistent.

a = pd.Index(['a', 'b', 'a'])
b = pd.Index(['a', 'b', 'a'], dtype='category')
a.str.cat(b)
# Index(['aa', 'bb', 'aa'], dtype='object')
b.str.cat(a)
# AttributeError: Can only use .str accessor with string values (i.e. inferred_type is 'string', 'unicode' or 'mixed')