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You can "discretize" or "bin" continuous features into categorical features.

from sklearn.preprocessing import KBinsDiscretizer

kb = KBinsDiscretizer(n_bins=3, strategy='quantile', encode='ordinal')

kb.fit_transform(df['Fare'])

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