[Numpy-discussion] Different attributes for NumPy types

[Bruce Southey]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It also leads to various inconsistencies:
>>
>> In [1]: float32(array([[1]]))
>> Out[1]: array([[ 1.]], dtype=float32)
>>
>> In [2]: float64(array([[1]]))
>> Out[2]: 1.0
>
> Okay, so don't do that. Always use x.astype(dtype) or asarray(x, dtype).
>
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So, should these return an error if the argument is an ndarray object,
a list or similar?
Otherwise, int, float and string type of arguments would be okay under
the assumption that people would like variable precision scalars.


Bruce