Check whether an array-like or dtype is of a DatetimeTZDtype dtype.
Deprecated since version 2.1.0: Use isinstance(dtype, pd.DatetimeTZDtype) instead.
The array-like or dtype to check.
Whether or not the array-like or dtype is of a DatetimeTZDtype dtype.
Examples
>>> from pandas.api.types import is_datetime64tz_dtype
>>> is_datetime64tz_dtype(object)
False
>>> is_datetime64tz_dtype([1, 2, 3])
False
>>> is_datetime64tz_dtype(pd.DatetimeIndex([1, 2, 3])) # tz-naive
False
>>> is_datetime64tz_dtype(pd.DatetimeIndex([1, 2, 3], tz="US/Eastern"))
True
>>> from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import DatetimeTZDtype
>>> dtype = DatetimeTZDtype("ns", tz="US/Eastern")
>>> s = pd.Series([], dtype=dtype)
>>> is_datetime64tz_dtype(dtype)
True
>>> is_datetime64tz_dtype(s)
True
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