# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# Creating the categorical Index
idx = pd.Index(['Labrador', 'Beagle', 'Mastiff', 'Lhasa',
                    'Husky', 'Beagle']).astype('category')
  
# Print the Index
idx

# Find whether idx1 is categorical or not.
idx.is_categorical()

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# Creating the Index
idx = pd.Index(['2015-10-31', '2015-12-02', None, '2016-01-03',
                      '2016-02-08', '2017-05-05', '2014-02-11'])
  
# Print the Index
idx

# test whether idx is having categorical values.
idx.is_categorical()