Check if dataframe column is Categorical

Question

I can\'t seem to get a simple dtype check working with Pandas\' improved Categoricals in v0.15+. Basically I just want something like is_categorical(column) -> True

Answer 1

Just putting this here because pandas.DataFrame.select_dtypes() is what I was actually looking for:

df['column'].name in df.select_dtypes(include='category').columns

Thanks to @Jeff.