[MATRIX-SIG] Type questions

[Janko Hauser]

Daniel Michelson writes:
 > Hej,
 > 
 > A quick and dirty answer from a Python novice:
 > 
 > >>> a = array([[0, 1, 2],[3, 4, 5],[6, 7, 8]])
 > >>> (a*1.2).typecode()
 > 'd'
 > >>> array((a*1.2), 'f').typecode()
 > 'f'
 > 
 > Does this help at all?
 > 

This is not really a solution, because now everything is coerced
twice, internally there is a change to a double array. (If I
understand the rules right, but this can be wrong)

 > BTW: Do you have anything to do with Lutz Hasse and his group? I've sent
 > them a pile of my radar data for the BALTEX PIDCAP period and they seem
 > to be doing good things with it...
 > 
Not at the moment, because I'm in oceanography, and the Hasse group is
in the meteorological department. But who knows what will happen. But
they don't work with Numpy yet (:-)).

__Janko

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