pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionDtype.is_dtype

classmethod ExtensionDtype.is_dtype(dtype) [source]

Check if we match ‘dtype’.

Parameters:

dtype : object

The object to check.

Returns:
is_dtype : bool

Notes

The default implementation is True if

  1. cls.construct_from_string(dtype) is an instance of cls.
  2. dtype is an object and is an instance of cls
  3. dtype has a dtype attribute, and any of the above conditions is true for dtype.dtype.

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