[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Numeric typecodes

Konrad Hinsen hinsen@ibs.ibs.fr
Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:41:15 +0100


> I'm using a pre 1.0 version of Numeric which does seem to support all the
> typecodes in v1.0.  For the available types for Floats are 'd' and 'f'.
> Would someone please tell me how many bytes these use to represent floating
> point data?

That depends on your C compiler. 'd' stands for C 'double' (i.e.
standard Python float precision), and 'f' stands for C 'float'.
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