Backport PR pandas-dev#48414 on branch 1.5.x (DOC: Add deprecation to…

… is_categorical) (pandas-dev#48418) Backport PR pandas-dev#48414: DOC: Add deprecation to is_categorical Co-authored-by: Kevin Sheppard <bashtage@users.noreply.github.com>
meeseeksmachine · Sep 6, 2022 · e6f5022 · e6f5022
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@@ -280,6 +280,9 @@ def is_categorical(arr) -> bool:
     """
     Check whether an array-like is a Categorical instance.
 
+    .. deprecated:: 1.1.0
+        Use ``is_categorical_dtype`` instead.
+
     Parameters
     ----------
     arr : array-like