After drilling through the sources a second time, I found it was
numpy/core/src/multiarray/descriptor.c was the file to consult with
the primary routine being PyArray_DescrConverter and _convert_from_*
functions being the most interesting to read and glean the
capabilities of this with.
So in part
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Sturla Molden
wrote:
> > I don't see the issue. They are just aliases so how is np.float worse
> > than just float?
>
> I have burned my fingers on it.
>
I must have too -- but I don't recall, because I am VERY careful about not
using np.float, no.int, etc... bu
Julian Taylor wrote:
> I don't see the issue. They are just aliases so how is np.float worse
> than just float?
I have burned my fingers on it.
Since np.double is a C double I assumed np.float is a C float. It is not.
np.int has the same problem by being a C long. Pure evil. Most users of
Num
On 07/23/2015 04:29 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So one of the things exposed in the numpy namespace are objects called
>np.int
>np.float
>np.bool
> etc.
>
> These are commonly used -- in fact, just yesterday on another project
> I saw a senior person reviewing a pull reques
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:05 AM, wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Robert Kern
wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:45 PM, wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there an explanation somewhere of what different basic dtypes mean,
across platforms and python versions?
>> >
>> > >>> np.bool8
>> >
>> >
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:45 PM, wrote:
> >
> > Is there an explanation somewhere of what different basic dtypes mean,
> across platforms and python versions?
> >
> > >>> np.bool8
> >
> > >>> np.bool_
> >
> > >>> bool
> >
> >
> >
> > Are t
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:45 PM, wrote:
>
> Is there an explanation somewhere of what different basic dtypes mean,
across platforms and python versions?
>
> >>> np.bool8
>
> >>> np.bool_
>
> >>> bool
>
>
>
> Are there any rules and recommendations or is it all folks lore?
This may help a littl
