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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2013-11-11 18:56:19 -0800
committerCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2013-11-11 18:56:19 -0800
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Merge pull request #4037 from migueldvb/docs
Example to convert the type of an array using the astype method and minor typo fix
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@@ -134,5 +134,14 @@ the previous operations:
>>> swapped_end_arr.tostring() == big_end_str
False
+An easier way of casting the data to a specific dtype and byte ordering
+can be achieved with the ndarray astype method:
+
+>>> swapped_end_arr = big_end_arr.astype('<i2')
+>>> swapped_end_arr[0]
+1
+>>> swapped_end_arr.tostring() == big_end_str
+False
+
"""
from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function