>> Forgive me if I haven't understood your question, but can you use >> PyArray_DescrFromType with e.g NPY_FLOAT64 ? > > I'm pretty hopeless here. I don't know how to put all that together in > a function.
That might be because I'm not understanding you very well, but I was thinking that: cdef dtype descr = PyArray_DescrFromType(NPY_FLOAT64) would give you the float64 dtype that I thought you wanted? I'm shooting from the hip here, in between nieces competing for the computer and my attention. See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion