On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it intentional that "I" is supported as a dtype character, but cannot be
> suffixed with a size?
>
>>>> dtype('i1')
> dtype('int8')
>>>> dtype('I1')
> dtype('uint32')"i" means "integer". "i1" means "integer with 8 bits". "I" means "32-bit unsigned integer". "I1" means "32-bit unsigned integer with 8 bits". Obviously this last thing doesn't make much sense :-). Historically numpy as accepted it anyway, and just ignored the suffix. In current numpy it's still allowed for backwards compatibility, but deprecated, and will become an error at some point. See https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/294 -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
