Hi Stéfan,

Is that the recommended way of checking the type of the array? Ususally for type checkin, I use the isinstance built-in in python, but I see that will not work in this case. I must admit that I am a little confused by this. Why is type different from dtype?

Thanks,
Suchindra

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:

2008/7/18 Suchindra Sandhu <suchindra@gmail.com>:

> Can someone please explain to me this oddity?
>
> In [1]: import numpy as n
>
> In [8]: a = n.array((1,2,3), 'i')
>
> In [9]: type(a[0])
> Out[9]: <type 'numpy.int32'>

There's more than one int32 type lying around. Rather, compare *dtypes*:

In [19]: a.dtype == np.int32
Out[19]: True

Regards
Stéfan
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