[Numpy-discussion] unexpected downcast

[Christopher Barker]

Robert Kern wrote:
> That's just what asfarray is designed to do. If you don't give it a dtype, it 
> uses float64.

For the record, it upcasts float32 arrays also.

So why does it exist at all? Is is just syntactic sugar for:

asarray(a, dtype=float64)

Which kind of seems to be not worth it.

If, on the other hand, it meant:

"make this a floating point array, but keep the input precision if it's 
already a float type", that could be useful (and not completely trivial 
to write yourself).

-Chris


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