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Python

Posted by Edward Smith-Langridge
Edward Smith-Langridge
2,333 Points

Hi, as i am following along I get the type as "numpy.float64" rather than in the "numpy.uint16" ?

code: study_minutes = np.zeros(100) study_minutes[0] = 150 first_day_minutes = study_minutes[0] type(first_day_minutes)

numpy.float64

gregjoseph
gregjoseph
530 Points

in the documentation for zeros in numpy, the default dtype when you don't specify one is float64. Since you don't have any argument beyond how many zeros to generated, the dtype assigned after the array is generated is float64. To correct the issue, specify the string format name of the dtype that you desire in the first line.

This means it would become "study_minutes = np.zeros(100, dtype= 'uint16')".