Python Pandas CategoricalIndex - Get the categories of this categorical

To get the categories of this categorical, use the categories property of the CategoricalIndex in Pandas. At first, import the required libraries −

import pandas as pd

CategoricalIndex can only take on a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values (categories. Set the categories for the categorical using the "categories" parameter. Treat the categorical as ordered using the "ordered" parameter −

catIndex = pd.CategoricalIndex(["p", "q", "r", "s","p", "q", "r", "s"], ordered=True, categories=["p", "q", "r", "s"])

Display the Categorical Index −

print("Categorical Index...\n",catIndex)

Get the categories −

print("\nDisplaying Categories from CategoricalIndex...\n",catIndex.categories)

Example

Following is the code −

import pandas as pd

# CategoricalIndex can only take on a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values
# Set the categories for the categorical using the "categories" parameter
# Treat the categorical as ordered using the "ordered" parameter
catIndex = pd.CategoricalIndex(["p", "q", "r", "s","p", "q", "r", "s"], ordered=True, categories=["p", "q", "r", "s"])

# Display the Categorical Index
print("Categorical Index...\n",catIndex)

# Get the categories
print("\nDisplaying Categories from CategoricalIndex...\n",catIndex.categories)

Output

This will produce the following output −

Categorical Index...
CategoricalIndex(['p', 'q', 'r', 's', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's'], categories=['p', 'q', 'r', 's'], ordered=True, dtype='category')

DisplayingCategories from CategoricalIndex...
Index(['p', 'q', 'r', 's'], dtype='object')