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@shoyer shoyer commented Mar 11, 2015

Follow-up on #9617

Fixes #8814 -- is it fair to say that hasattr(s, 'cat') is probably
the best solution we're going to come up with for checking for categorical
data?

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Follow-up on GH9617 Fixes GH8814 -- is it fair to say that ``hasattr(s, 'cat')`` is probably the best solution we're going to come up with for checking for categorical data?
@shoyer shoyer added Build Library building on various platforms Docs Categorical Categorical Data Type labels Mar 11, 2015
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can you add a :okexcept: option to the directive here (so the doc building does not issue a warning for the failure)?

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hasattr catches the error, so I don't think that's necessary?

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ah, yes, sorry, I was looking too quickly, thought you were giving an example of that accessing the attribute raises, but it is hasattr, not getattr ..

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shoyer commented Mar 11, 2015

FYI this commit passed on my fork so we can safely merge this: https://travis-ci.org/shoyer/pandas/builds/53882855

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jreback commented Mar 11, 2015

ok, looks ok to me. go ahead and merge.

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TST/DOC: Fix tests and docs for .cat raising AttributeError if invalid
@shoyer shoyer merged commit a162728 into pandas-dev:master Mar 11, 2015
@shoyer shoyer deleted the fix-accessors-raise-AttributeError branch March 11, 2015 01:35
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