[Numpy-discussion] dtyping with .astype()

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> 13.10.2011 12:59, Alex van der Spek kirjoitti:
>> gives me a confusing result. I only asked to name the columns and change their
>> types to half precision floats.
>
> Structured arrays shouldn't be thought as an array with named columns,
> as they are somewhat different.
>
>> What am I missing? How to do this?
>
> np.rec.fromarrays(arr.T, dtype=dt)

y.astype(float16).view(dt)

?
Josef


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