18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
10:38 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Stéfan van der Walt
2008/7/18 Arnar Flatberg
: I need to check if my array (a) is of type `string`. That is, I dont know the number of characters beforehand, so I cant do a.dtype == '|S*' (* = (max) number of characters) Looking at my options, I see either a.dtype.kind == 'S' or a.dtype.type == np.string_, might be ok. Are these any of the preffered ways, or is there some other way?
Maybe
np.issubdtype(x.dtype, str)
Yes, silly of me. I didnt look at the documentation (source) and tried np.issubdtype(x, str) as my first try. That not working, I got lost. That said, I think some other parameter names than arg1, arg2 would be nice for an undocumented function . Arnar