ak.from_categorical — Awkward Array documentation

# ak.from_categorical

Defined in awkward.behaviors.categorical on line 306.

ak.from_categorical(array, highlevel=True)
  Parameters:

    - array – Awkward Array from which to remove the ‘categorical’ parameter.

    - highlevel (bool) – If True, return an `ak.Array`; otherwise, return a low-level `ak.layout.Content` subclass.

This function replaces categorical data with non-categorical data (by removing the label that declares it as such).

This is a metadata-only operation; the running time does not scale with the size of the dataset. (Conversion to categorical is expensive; conversion from categorical is cheap.)

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