numpy.core.defchararray.decode — NumPy v1.11 Manual (original) (raw)
numpy.core.defchararray.decode(a, encoding=None, errors=None)[source]¶
Calls str.decode element-wise.
The set of available codecs comes from the Python standard library, and may be extended at runtime. For more information, see thecodecs module.
| Parameters: | a : array_like of str or unicode encoding : str, optional The name of an encoding errors : str, optional Specifies how to handle encoding errors |
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| Returns: | out : ndarray |
Notes
The type of the result will depend on the encoding specified.
Examples
c = np.array(['aAaAaA', ' aA ', 'abBABba']) c array(['aAaAaA', ' aA ', 'abBABba'], dtype='|S7') np.char.encode(c, encoding='cp037') array(['\x81\xc1\x81\xc1\x81\xc1', '@@\x81\xc1@@', '\x81\x82\xc2\xc1\xc2\x82\x81'], dtype='|S7')