On Monday 24 July 2006 03:18, Karol Langner wrote: > On Monday 24 July 2006 06:47, Sebastian Haase wrote: > > Hi, > > if I have a numpy array 'a' > > and say: > > a.dtype == numpy.float32 > > > > Is the result independent of a's byteorder ? > > (That's what I would expect ! Just checking !) > > > > Thanks, > > Sebastian Haase > > The condition will always be False, because you're comparing wrong things > here, numpy.float32 is a scalar type, not a dtype.
Hi ! Thanks for the reply. Did you actually run this ? I get: #>>> a=N.arange(10, dtype=N.float32) #>>> a.dtype == N.float32 #True #>>> N.__version__ #'0.9.9.2823' > > >>> numpy.float32 > > <type 'float32scalar'> > > >>> type(numpy.dtype('>f4')) > > <type 'numpy.dtype'> > > And I think byteorder matters when comparing dtypes: > >>> numpy.dtype('>f4') == numpy.dtype('<f4') > False OK - I did a test now: #>>> b= a.copy() #>>> b=b.newbyteorder('big') #>>> a.dtype == b.dtype #False #>>> a.dtype #'<f4' #>>> b.dtype #'>f4' How can I do a comparison showing that both a and b are float32 ?? Thanks, Sebastian Haase ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion