Question

I’ve got an ndarray in python with a dtype of float64. I’d like to convert the array to be an array of integers. How should I do this?

int() won’t work, as it says it can’t convert it to a scalar. Changing the dtype field itself obviously doesn’t work, as the actual bytes haven’t changed. I can’t seem to find anything on Google or in the documentation – what’s the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Use .astype.

>>> a = numpy.array([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype=numpy.float64)
>>> a
array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  4.])
>>> a.astype(numpy.int64)
array([1, 2, 3, 4])

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