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BUG: Series with Categorical and dtype #12574

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chris-b1 opened this issue Mar 9, 2016 · 1 comment

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Bug Categorical Reshaping

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chris-b1 commented Mar 9, 2016

xref #12573 (comment)

In [37]: pd.Series(pd.Categorical([1,2,3]), dtype='category')
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-37-87a1a3228158> in <module>()
----> 1 pd.Series(pd.Categorical([1,2,3]), dtype='category')

ValueError: cannot specify a dtype with a Categorical

jreback added Bug Reshaping Difficulty Novice Categorical labels

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Allow dtype='category' or dtype=None for Series with Categorical #12636

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drewfustin commented Mar 16, 2016

@jreback I'm new to contributing to OS, let alone pandas. I think this is the fix that you're referencing. Let me know if not and I'll fix.

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ENH: allow categoricals in msgpack #12573

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