RFR: IO cleanup

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did we decided on a standard for which dtypes we will support?

IIRC, we said we'd write utility functions to convert from whatever
input is received to either float64 or int16 types and go from there.
The output type is whatever is most convenient for the algorithm, and
should be well documented.

Can you recall the different approaches discussed at the sprint?

Cheers
Stéfan