Dear Ted,
* Ted Sandler <ted.sand...@gmail.com> [2014-07-03]:
> Thanks. No, it's not what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm looking for the code that parses the string "<i8" in the npy file array
> header's descriptor:
>
> {'descr': '<i8', 'fortran_order': False, 'shape': (5,), }
>
> There are many different descriptor strings, e.g.:
>
> '>f8'
> '=f4'
> 'float32'
> '>c16'
> ...
>
> Ideally, I want the exhaustive list of valid input strings that describe
> standard ndarrays (i.e. ndarrays with simple entries as opposed to records
> or subarrays). Lacking an exhaustive list or spec, I'd like the source code
> that does the parsing for them. This stackoverflow post is worth looking
> at:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13997087/what-are-the-available-datatypes-for-dtype-with-numpys-loadtxt-an-genfromtxt
The only thing I could find in this direction, was:
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.dtypes.html
But since you have mentioned the stackoverflow post, I presume you have
already discovered this page.
best,
V-
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