numpy.asfarray

numpy.asfarray(a, dtype=<class 'numpy.double'>)

Return an array converted to a float type.

Parameters:

aarray_like

The input array.

dtypestr or dtype object, optional

Float type code to coerce input array a. If dtype is one of the ‘int’ dtypes, it is replaced with float64.

Returns:

outndarray

The input a as a float ndarray.

Examples

>>> np.asfarray([2, 3])
array([2.,  3.])
>>> np.asfarray([2, 3], dtype='float')
array([2.,  3.])
>>> np.asfarray([2, 3], dtype='int8')
array([2.,  3.])