Merge pull request #12008 from eric-wieser/cast-comments

MAINT: Reassociate `np.cast` with the comment describing it

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/numerictypes.py b/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
index bdaa88cb8..f0cd8ec74 100644
--- a/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
+++ b/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
@@ -746,9 +746,10 @@ def sctype2char(sctype):
 
 # Create dictionary of casting functions that wrap sequences
 # indexed by type or type character
-
-
 cast = _typedict()
+for key in _sctype2char_dict.keys():
+    cast[key] = lambda x, k=key: array(x, copy=False).astype(k)
+
 try:
     ScalarType = [_types.IntType, _types.FloatType, _types.ComplexType,
                   _types.LongType, _types.BooleanType,
@@ -759,11 +760,8 @@ except AttributeError:
 
 ScalarType.extend(_sctype2char_dict.keys())
 ScalarType = tuple(ScalarType)
-for key in _sctype2char_dict.keys():
-    cast[key] = lambda x, k=key: array(x, copy=False).astype(k)
 
 # Add additional strings to the sctypeDict
-
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     _toadd = ['int', 'float', 'complex', 'bool', 'object',
               'str', 'bytes', 'object', ('a', allTypes['bytes_'])]