.. _routines.dtype:

Data type routines
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.. currentmodule:: numpy

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   can_cast
   promote_types
   min_scalar_type
   result_type
   common_type
   obj2sctype

Creating data types
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.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   dtype
   format_parser

Data type information
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.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   finfo
   iinfo

Data type testing
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.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   issctype
   issubdtype
   issubsctype
   issubclass_
   find_common_type

Miscellaneous
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.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   typename
   sctype2char
   mintypecode
   maximum_sctype
