dtype_info_name¶
-
astropy.utils.data_info.
dtype_info_name
(dtype)[source]¶ Return a human-oriented string name of the
dtype
arg. This can be use by astropy methods that present type information about a data object.The output is mostly equivalent to
dtype.name
which takes the form <type_name>[B] where <type_name> is likeint
orbool
and [B] is an optional number of bits which gets included only for numeric types.For bytes, string and unicode types, the output is shown below, where <N> is the number of characters. This representation corresponds to the Python type that matches the dtype:
Numpy S<N> U<N> Python bytes<N> str<N>
- Parameters
- dtypestr, np.dtype, type
Input dtype as an object that can be converted via np.dtype()
- Returns
- dtype_info_namestr
String name of
dtype