dare I say... datetime64/timedelta64 support? ::ducks::
Ben Root On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi All, > > This is apropos gh-5634 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5634>, a PR > adding a precision keyword to asarray and asanyarray. The PR description is > > The precision keyword differs from the current dtype keyword in the >> following way. >> >> - It specifies a minimum precision. If the precision of the input is >> greater than the specified precision, the input precision is preserved. >> - Complex types are preserved. A specifies floating precision applies >> to the dtype of the real and complex parts separately. >> >> For example, both complex128 and float64 dtypes have the >> same precision and an array of dtype float64 will be unchanged if the >> specified precision is float32. >> >> Ideally the precision keyword would be pushed down into the array >> constructor so that the resulting dtype could be determined before the >> array is constructed, but that would require adding new functions as the >> current constructors are part of the API and cannot have their >> signatures changed. >> > The name of the keyword is open to discussion, as well as its acceptable > values. And of course, anything else that might come to mind ;) > > Thoughts? > > Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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