On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman@gmail.com> wrote:
To see if it is a number could you use something like:
np.issubdtype(a.dtype, float) or np.issubdtype(a.dtype, int) or np.issubdtype(a.dtype, complex)
And for string:
np.issubdtype(a.dtype, str)
These are valid but what I don't like is that I need to know the list of possible number types. Basically I don't like a test that fails because I didn't know about a dtype. For string It is ok, the universe of is either string or not string. Maybe this is as good as it gets. I guess my use case is that I want to be sure I can perform math on the values. So maybe I should just do someting like "numpy.lib._iotools._is_string_like" but "_is_number_like", Maybe there is such and I missed it. If not there should be. Vincent _______________________________________________
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