[Python] HistGradientBoostingClassifier - ValueError: could not convert string to float

I'm running a HistGradientBoostingClassifier with some categorical features and getting a 'ValueError: Columns must be same length as key' error. I defined the categorical features through the categorical_features parameter.

The documentation on HistGradientBoostingClassifier shows that it accepts categorical variables as features. Why is this happening?

I tried different inputs for the categorical_features (boolean, indeces) thinking that I'm doing something wrong with that but, I still can't make it work.

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