cat.
codes
Return Series of codes as well as the index.
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.codes 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 2 4 2 5 2 dtype: int8