Any way to get mappings of a label encoder in Python pandas?

Question

I am converting strings to categorical values in my dataset using the following piece of code.

data[\'weekday\'] = pd.Categorical.from_array(data.weekday).labels         


        

Answer 1

First, make a categorical series:

weekdays = pd.Series(['Sun', 'Sun', 'Wed', 'Mon', 'Mon']).astype('category')

Then, inspect its "categories":

weekdays.cat.categories.get_loc('Sun')