pandas.Series.cat.as_ordered — pandas 2.2.3 documentation (original) (raw)

Series.cat.as_ordered(*args, **kwargs)[source]#

Set the Categorical to be ordered.

Returns:

Categorical

Ordered Categorical.

Examples

For pandas.Series:

ser = pd.Series(['a', 'b', 'c', 'a'], dtype='category') ser.cat.ordered False ser = ser.cat.as_ordered() ser.cat.ordered True

For pandas.CategoricalIndex:

ci = pd.CategoricalIndex(['a', 'b', 'c', 'a']) ci.ordered False ci = ci.as_ordered() ci.ordered True

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