FutureWarning: is_categorical_dtype is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

[newini]

Expected Behavior

This is the future warning so should be fixed.

Actual Behavior

/var/lang/lib/python3.11/site-packages/category_encoders/utils.py:50: FutureWarning: is_categorical_dtype is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Use isinstance(dtype, CategoricalDtype) instead
  return pd.api.types.is_categorical_dtype(dtype)

• See Pandas GitHub : DEPR: is_categorical_dtype pandas-dev/pandas#52527

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

This is the future warning so should be fixed.

Specifications

• Version: '2.6.2'
• Platform: Python 3.11.4
• Subsystem: WSL2
• Pandas version: '2.1.2'

[newini]

I found that the warning is already fixed in master branch. https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/category_encoders/blob/master/category_encoders/utils.py#L53C2-L53C2

Why not release?

[PaulWestenthanner]

I just released 2.6.3. Sorry for being a little late with this.