In-place type conversion of a NumPy array

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Update: This function only avoids copy if it can, hence this is not the correct answer for this question. unutbu’s answer is the right one.

a = a.astype(numpy.float32, copy=False)

numpy astype has a copy flag. Why shouldn’t we use it ?

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