[Numpy-discussion] parsing dtype descriptors

[Ted Sandler]

Hi all, is there a spec or grammar for valid values of numpy dtype
descriptor strings?

I am writing code to parse ".npy" files from Java and want to be able to
handle the range of ndarray descriptor strings. I came across this code:

   dtype = numpy.dtype(d['descr'])

at line 267 in format.py:

   https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/lib/format.py

However, I can't seem to find where it's implemented.

Help is appreciated.  Thanks!
Ted
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