pandas.api.types.is_object_dtype — pandas 2.3.3 documentation (original) (raw)

pandas.api.types.is_object_dtype(arr_or_dtype)[source]#

Check whether an array-like or dtype is of the object dtype.

Parameters:

arr_or_dtypearray-like or dtype

The array-like or dtype to check.

Returns:

boolean

Whether or not the array-like or dtype is of the object dtype.

Examples

from pandas.api.types import is_object_dtype is_object_dtype(object) True is_object_dtype(int) False is_object_dtype(np.array([], dtype=object)) True is_object_dtype(np.array([], dtype=int)) False is_object_dtype([1, 2, 3]) False