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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions doc/source/categorical.rst
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Expand Up @@ -356,9 +356,9 @@ Comparisons
Comparing categorical data with other objects is possible in three cases:

* comparing equality (``==`` and ``!=``) to a list-like object (list, Series, array,
...) of the same length as the categorical data or
...) of the same length as the categorical data.
* all comparisons (``==``, ``!=``, ``>``, ``>=``, ``<``, and ``<=``) of categorical data to
another categorical Series, when ``ordered==True`` and the `categories` are the same or
another categorical Series, when ``ordered==True`` and the `categories` are the same.
* all comparisons of a categorical data to a scalar.

All other comparisons, especially "non-equality" comparisons of two categoricals with different
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -392,7 +392,8 @@ Equality comparisons work with any list-like object of same length and scalars:

.. ipython:: python

cat == cat_base2
cat == cat_base
cat == np.array([1,2,3])
cat == 2

This doesn't work because the categories are not the same:
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