[SciPy-User] itemfreq dtype

[Ruggero]

Dear experts,

I have a sparse array of integers:

x = np.arange(10, dtype=int)

(this is not sparse, but it doesn't matter).

I would like to use itemfreq as

freq = scipy.stats.itemfreq(x)

the problem is that it return float64 Nx2 array.

freq.dtype

 Why this? Why itemfreq is not following the dtype of the input? The
documentation says that bincount works better for integers, the
problem is that I have a sparse array.

What about a dtype(input.dtype, float_64) for the output?

Cheers,
Ruggero