pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionDtype.is_dtype

classmethodExtensionDtype.is_dtype(dtype)[source]

Check if we match ‘dtype’.

Parameters

dtype:object

The object to check.

Returns

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.