numpy.asfarray — NumPy v1.11 Manual (original) (raw)

numpy.asfarray(a, dtype=<type 'numpy.float64'>)[source]

Return an array converted to a float type.

Parameters: a : array_like The input array. dtype : str or dtype object, optional Float type code to coerce input array a. If dtype is one of the ‘int’ dtypes, it is replaced with float64.
Returns: out : ndarray The input a as a float ndarray.

Examples

np.asfarray([2, 3]) array([ 2., 3.]) np.asfarray([2, 3], dtype='float') array([ 2., 3.]) np.asfarray([2, 3], dtype='int8') array([ 2., 3.])