Check whether the provided array or dtype is of the datetime64 dtype.
The array or dtype to check.
Whether or not the array or dtype is of the datetime64 dtype.
Examples
>>> from pandas.api.types import is_datetime64_any_dtype
>>> from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import DatetimeTZDtype
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(str)
False
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(int)
False
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(np.datetime64) # can be tz-naive
True
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(DatetimeTZDtype("ns", "US/Eastern"))
True
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(np.array(['a', 'b']))
False
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(np.array([1, 2]))
False
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(np.array([], dtype="datetime64[ns]"))
True
>>> is_datetime64_any_dtype(pd.DatetimeIndex([1, 2, 3], dtype="datetime64[ns]"))
True
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