cudf.core.dtypes.CategoricalDtype.is_dtype

classmethod CategoricalDtype.is_dtype(dtype: object) → bool

Check if we match ‘dtype’.

Parameters:

dtypeobject

The object to check.

Returns:

bool

Notes

The default implementation is True if

1. cls.construct_from_string(dtype) is an instance of cls.

2. dtype is an object and is an instance of cls

3. dtype has a dtype attribute, and any of the above conditions is true for dtype.dtype.