pandas.api.types.is_datetime64_dtype

pandas.api.types.is_datetime64_dtype(arr_or_dtype)[source]

Check whether an array-like or dtype is of the datetime64 dtype.

Parameters:

arr_or_dtype:array-like or dtype

The array-like or dtype to check.

Returns:

boolean

Whether or not the array-like or dtype is of the datetime64 dtype.

Examples

>>> from pandas.api.types import is_datetime64_dtype
>>> is_datetime64_dtype(object)
False
>>> is_datetime64_dtype(np.datetime64)
True
>>> is_datetime64_dtype(np.array([], dtype=int))
False
>>> is_datetime64_dtype(np.array([], dtype=np.datetime64))
True
>>> is_datetime64_dtype([1, 2, 3])
False