On Jun 9, 2012, at 4:45 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to convert an array to string elements in numpy,
> without knowing the string length?
Not really. In the next release of NumPy you should be able to do.
result = array(arr2, str)
and it will determine the length of the string for you.
For now, I would compute the max length via
int(math.ceil(math.log10(np.max(arr2))))
-Travis
>
>
>>>> arr2 = np.arange(8, 13)
>
>>>> arr2.astype(str) # bad
> array(['8', '9', '1', '1', '1'],
> dtype='|S1')
>
>>>> arr2.astype('S2')
> array(['8', '9', '10', '11', '12'],
> dtype='|S2')
>
>>>> map(str, arr2)
> ['8', '9', '10', '11', '12']
>
>
>>>> arr3 = np.round(np.random.rand(5), 2)
>>>> arr3
> array([ 0.51, 0.86, 0.15, 0.68, 0.59])
>
>>>> arr3.astype(str) # bad
> array(['0', '0', '0', '0', '0'],
> dtype='|S1')
>
>>>> arr3.astype('S4')
> array(['0.51', '0.86', '0.15', '0.68', '0.59'],
> dtype='|S4')
>
>>>> map(str, arr3)
> ['0.51', '0.86', '0.15', '0.68', '0.59']
>
>>>> np.__version__
> '1.5.1'
>
> (from an issue in statsmodels)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josef
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