`numpy:sctype2char`

Signature

def sctype2char ( sctype )

Return the string representation of a scalar dtype.

sctype : scalar dtype or object: If a scalar dtype, the corresponding string character is returned. If an object, sctype2char tries to infer its scalar type and then return the corresponding string character.

: ValueError: If sctype is an object for which the type can not be inferred.

from numpy._core.numerictypes import sctype2char

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for sctype in [np.int32, np.double, np.cdouble, np.bytes_, np.ndarray]:
    print(sctype2char(sctype))

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x = np.array([1., 2-1.j])
sctype2char(x)
sctype2char(list)

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