BUG: codes array of a categorical Series is not writeable and prevents running __dlpack__() on __dataframe__() outputs · Issue #48393 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame({"a_int": [1, 2, 3]}) df["a_cat"] = df["a_int"].astype("category")

df["a_int"].values.flags.writeable True

df["a_cat"].values.codes.flags.writeable False

Issue Description

Speaking with @jorisvandenbossche, it seems that this is not intentional and might be caused by the used of the readonly type specialization in the Cython code of the categorical Series. Wrong, see: #48393 (comment)

The fact that this is not writeable makes it impossible to leverage the __dlpack__() method of the buffers returned by the __dataframe__() interop method because under the hood it would result in calling:

import numpy as np np.from_dlpack(df.dataframe().get_column_by_name("a_cat").get_buffers()['data'][0]) Traceback (most recent call last): Input In [6] in <cell line: 1> np.from_dlpack(df.dataframe().get_column_by_name("a_cat").get_buffers()['data'][0]) File ~/code/pandas/pandas/core/interchange/buffer.py:57 in dlpack return self._x.dlpack() TypeError: NumPy currently only supports dlpack for writeable arrays

Expected Behavior

Have the .codes array be writeable, even if the .codes attribute itself is not mutable in the Cython class.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS
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commit           : 298dac384f92726b6da9a6319695cb0269e6eeb8
python           : 3.10.6.final.0
python-bits      : 64
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pip              : 22.2.2
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