pandas.Series.factorize

Encode the object as an enumerated type or categorical variable.

This method is useful for obtaining a numeric representation of an array when all that matters is identifying distinct values. factorize is available as both a top-level function pandas.factorize(), and as a method Series.factorize() and Index.factorize().

param sort

boolean, default False

Sort uniques and shuffle labels to maintain the relationship.

param na_sentinel

int, default -1

Value to mark “not found”.

return

labels : ndarray An integer ndarray that’s an indexer into uniques. uniques.take(labels) will have the same values as values. uniques : ndarray, Index, or Categorical The unique valid values. When values is Categorical, uniques is a Categorical. When values is some other pandas object, an Index is returned. Otherwise, a 1-D ndarray is returned.

Note

Even if there’s a missing value in values, uniques will not contain an entry for it.

Warning

This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler