pandas.Series.cat.rename_categories

Rename categories.

param new_categories

list-like, dict-like or callable

• list-like: all items must be unique and the number of items in

  the new categories must match the existing number of categories.

• dict-like: specifies a mapping from

  old categories to new. Categories not contained in the mapping are passed through and extra categories in the mapping are ignored.

New in version 0.21.0.

• callablea callable that is called on all items in the old

  categories and whose return values comprise the new categories.

New in version 0.23.0.

param inplace

bool, default False

Whether or not to rename the categories inplace or return a copy of this categorical with renamed categories.

return

cat : Categorical or None With inplace=False, the new categorical is returned. With inplace=True, there is no return value.

raises

ValueError

If new categories are list-like and do not have the same number of items than the current categories or do not validate as categories

Warning

This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler