pyarrow.DictionaryType¶

class pyarrow.DictionaryType¶

Bases: pyarrow.lib.DataType

Concrete class for dictionary data types.

__init__()¶: Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

`equals`(self, other)	Return true if type is equivalent to passed value
`to_pandas_dtype`(self)	Return the equivalent NumPy / Pandas dtype.

Attributes

`bit_width`
`dictionary`	The dictionary array, mapping dictionary indices to values.
`id`
`index_type`	The data type of dictionary indices (a signed integer type).
`ordered`	Whether the dictionary is ordered, i.e.

equals(self, other)¶

Return true if type is equivalent to passed value

Parameters:	other (DataType or string convertible to DataType) –
Returns:	is_equal (boolean)

ordered¶: Whether the dictionary is ordered, i.e. whether the ordering of values in the dictionary is important.