[Numpy-discussion] Using issubdtype to check integer types

[Robert Kern]

2010/10/14 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>:
> Hi all,
>
> Is this behaviour correct?
>
> In [18]: np.issubdtype(np.uint16, np.uint)
> Out[18]: False

Yes, it's correct. np.uint is a concrete type that is the
platform-specific C unsigned long type:

|1> np.uint
<type 'numpy.uint32'>


The abstract base type is np.unsignedinteger:

|3> np.issubdtype(np.uint16, np.unsignedinteger)
True

-- 
Robert Kern

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