CategoricalIndex.
reorder_categories
Reorder categories as specified in new_categories.
new_categories needs to include all old categories and no new category items.
The categories in new order.
Whether or not the categorical is treated as an ordered categorical. If not given, do not change the ordered information.
Whether or not to reorder the categories inplace or return a copy of this categorical with reordered categories.
Deprecated since version 3.2.0.
Categorical with removed categories or None if inplace=True.
inplace=True
If the new categories do not contain all old category items or any new ones
See also
rename_categories
Rename categories.
add_categories
Add new categories.
remove_categories
Remove the specified categories.
remove_unused_categories
Remove categories which are not used.
set_categories
Set the categories to the specified ones.
Examples
>>> idx = ps.CategoricalIndex(list("abbccc")) >>> idx CategoricalIndex(['a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c'], categories=['a', 'b', 'c'], ordered=False, dtype='category')
>>> idx.reorder_categories(['c', 'b', 'a']) CategoricalIndex(['a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c'], categories=['c', 'b', 'a'], ordered=False, dtype='category')