[Numpy-discussion] Casting a float array into a string array

[Christopher Barker]

Matthieu Brucher wrote:

>                 And if there is a way to add a
>                 formatting option ('1.1f' for instance), it would be
>                 even better.

For full control of the formatting, you can use python's string 
formatting, and a nested list comprehension:

[ ["%.3f"%i for i in r] for r in x]

I don't know how to generalize this to n-d though -- maybe numpy.vectorize?

-Chris


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