pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionDtype

class pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionDtype [source]

A custom data type, to be paired with an ExtensionArray.

New in version 0.23.0.

Notes

The interface includes the following abstract methods that must be implemented by subclasses:

• type
• name
• construct_from_string

The na_value class attribute can be used to set the default NA value for this type. numpy.nan is used by default.

This class does not inherit from ‘abc.ABCMeta’ for performance reasons. Methods and properties required by the interface raise pandas.errors.AbstractMethodError and no register method is provided for registering virtual subclasses.

Attributes

kind	A character code (one of ‘biufcmMOSUV’), default ‘O’
name	A string identifying the data type.
names	Ordered list of field names, or None if there are no fields.
type	The scalar type for the array, e.g.

Methods

construct_from_string(string)	Attempt to construct this type from a string.
is_dtype(dtype)	Check if we match ‘dtype’.