From b4eefa06651aafb041c0fd7ff461af25f2d1e689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ashwin Srinath <shwina@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:30:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Call `pd.api.types.is_integer_dtype()` when dtype conversion
 fails

---
 python/cudf/cudf/utils/dtypes.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/utils/dtypes.py b/python/cudf/cudf/utils/dtypes.py
index b2cf498a6b7..5dffc5eeaf5 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/utils/dtypes.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/utils/dtypes.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ def is_integer_dtype(obj):
     try:
         dtype = np.dtype(obj)
     except TypeError:
-        return False
+        return pd.api.types.is_integer_dtype(obj)
     return dtype.kind in "iu"