cat.
as_ordered
Set the Categorical to be ordered.
Whether or not to set the ordered attribute in-place or return a copy of this categorical with ordered set to True.
Deprecated since version 3.4.0.
Ordered Categorical or None if inplace=True.
inplace=True
Examples
>>> s = ps.Series(list("abbccc"), dtype="category") >>> s 0 a 1 b 2 b 3 c 4 c 5 c dtype: category Categories (3, object): ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> s.cat.as_ordered() 0 a 1 b 2 b 3 c 4 c 5 c dtype: category Categories (3, object): ['a' < 'b' < 'c']