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# numpy.format_parser

class `numpy.``format_parser`(formats, names, titles, aligned=False, byteorder=None)

  Class to convert formats, names, titles description to a dtype

  After constructing the format_parser object, the dtype attribute is
    the converted data-type.

  dtype = format_parser(formats, names, titles).dtype

  Parameters: | formats : string or list comma-separated format descriptions — ‘f8, i4, a5’ list of format description strings — [‘f8’, ‘i4’, ‘a5’] names : string or (list or tuple of strings) comma-separated field names — ‘col1, col2, col3’ list or tuple of field names titles : sequence sequence of title strings or unicode aligned : bool align the fields by padding as the C-compiler would byteorder : : If specified, all the fields will be changed to the provided byteorder. Otherwise, the default byteorder is used.
  Returns: | object : A Python object whose dtype attribute is a data-type.

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