pandas.api.types.is_period_dtype  
pandas.api.types.is_period_dtype(arr_or_dtype) [source]
 
Check whether an array-like or dtype is of the Period dtype.    
Parameters:

 
arr_or_dtype : array-like  
The array-like or dtype to check.     
Returns:

 boolean 
Whether or not the array-like or dtype is of the Period dtype.      Examples >>> is_period_dtype(object)
False
>>> is_period_dtype(PeriodDtype(freq="D"))
True
>>> is_period_dtype([1, 2, 3])
False
>>> is_period_dtype(pd.Period("2017-01-01"))
False
>>> is_period_dtype(pd.PeriodIndex([], freq="A"))
True
 


    
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