Robert Kern wrote:
That's just what asfarray is designed to do. If you don't give it a dtype, it
uses float64.
For the record, it upcasts float32 arrays also.
So why does it exist at all? Is is just syntactic sugar for:
asarray(a, dtype=float64)
Which kind of seems to be not worth it.
If,
Alan G Isaac wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, dmitrey apparently wrote:
from numpy import *
a = array((1.0, 2.0), float128)
b=asfarray(a)
type(a[0])
#type 'numpy.float128'
type(b[0])
#type 'numpy.float64'
__version__
'1.0.5.dev4767'
Dmitrey noted an unexpected down cast (above).
Is
