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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an array of floats that is an interleaved
stream of complex (real/imag) values that I want to promote to complex. My
current method uses the following</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a=array([1,2,3,4])</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>b = a[0:4:2] + cmath.sqrt(-1)*a[1:4:2]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a more elegant way ? I am hoping to
avoid explicit for loops etc</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>