find_categorical_and_numerical_variables#
- feature_engine.variable_handling.find_categorical_and_numerical_variables(X, variables=None)[source]#
Find numerical and categorical variables.
The function returns two lists; the first one with the names of the variables of type object or categorical and the second list with the names of the numerical variables.
More details in the User Guide.
- Parameters
- Xpandas dataframe of shape = [n_samples, n_features]
The dataset
- variableslist, default=None
If
None, the function will find categorical and numerical variables in X. Alternatively, it will find categorical and numerical variables in the given list.
- Returns
- variables: tuple
List of numerical and list of categorical variables.
Examples
>>> import pandas as pd >>> from feature_engine.variable_handling import ( >>> find_categorical_and_numerical_variables >>>) >>> X = pd.DataFrame({ >>> "var_num": [1, 2, 3], >>> "var_cat": ["A", "B", "C"], >>> "var_date": pd.date_range("2020-02-24", periods=3, freq="T") >>> }) >>> var_cat, var_num = find_categorical_and_numerical_variables(X) >>> var_cat, var_num (['var_cat'], ['var_num'])