numpy.lib.format.descr_to_dtype

lib.format.descr_to_dtype(descr)[source]

Returns a dtype based off the given description.

This is essentially the reverse of dtype_to_descr(). It will remove the valueless padding fields created by, i.e. simple fields like dtype(‘float32’), and then convert the description to its corresponding dtype.

Parameters
descrobject

The object retrieved by dtype.descr. Can be passed to numpy.dtype() in order to replicate the input dtype.

Returns
dtypedtype

The dtype constructed by the description.