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| author | bjnath <github@bigriver.xyz> | 2020-06-10 17:27:13 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-06-10 14:27:13 -0700 |
| commit | 68ebc2bad1ad6a99e9939eff205a1a6d936cf4fd (patch) | |
| tree | 6f913b07e724f6dd4ab202bc046d79b8713b51a2 /numpy/core/function_base.py | |
| parent | 0ac02d3819157a9c64b78157428336200632cff8 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-68ebc2bad1ad6a99e9939eff205a1a6d936cf4fd.tar.gz | |
DOC: Fix description of dtype default in linspace (#16433)
DOC: Fix description of dtype default in linspace
Clarify that inferred type will never be integer. Fixes gh-8597.
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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/function_base.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/function_base.py b/numpy/core/function_base.py index 946e255c1..4b5c307fd 100644 --- a/numpy/core/function_base.py +++ b/numpy/core/function_base.py @@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ def linspace(start, stop, num=50, endpoint=True, retstep=False, dtype=None, If True, return (`samples`, `step`), where `step` is the spacing between samples. dtype : dtype, optional - The type of the output array. If `dtype` is not given, infer the data - type from the other input arguments. + The type of the output array. If `dtype` is not given, the data type + is inferred from `start` and `stop`. The inferred dtype will + never be an integer; `float` is chosen even if the arguments would + produce an array of integers. .. versionadded:: 1.9.0 |