ak.is_categorical — Awkward Array documentation

# ak.is_categorical

Defined in awkward.behaviors.categorical on line 116.

ak.is_categorical(array)
  Parameters:

    array – A possibly-categorical Awkward Array.

If the `array` is categorical (contains `ak.layout.IndexedArray` or `ak.layout.IndexedOptionArray` labeled with parameter `"__array__" = "categorical"`), then this function returns True; otherwise, it returns False.

See also `ak.categories`, `ak.to_categorical`, `ak.from_categorical`.