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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/format.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/format.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/format.py b/numpy/lib/format.py index 553c9371d..abd98dd22 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/format.py +++ b/numpy/lib/format.py @@ -261,12 +261,13 @@ def dtype_to_descr(dtype): def descr_to_dtype(descr): ''' descr may be stored as dtype.descr, which is a list of - (name, format, [shape]) tuples. Offsets are not explicitly saved, rather - empty fields with name,format == '', '|Vn' are added as padding. + (name, format, [shape]) tuples where format may be a str or a tuple. + Offsets are not explicitly saved, rather empty fields with + name, format == '', '|Vn' are added as padding. This function reverses the process, eliminating the empty padding fields. ''' - if isinstance(descr, (str, dict)): + if isinstance(descr, (str, dict, tuple)): # No padding removal needed return numpy.dtype(descr) |