# numpy.asfarray

numpy.asfarray(a, dtype=<class 'numpy.double'>)

  Return an array converted to a float type.

  Parameters
    a array_like

      The input array.

    dtype str or dtype object, optional

      Float type code to coerce input array a. If `dtype` is one of the ‘int’ dtypes, it is replaced with float64.

  Returns
    out ndarray

      The input a as a float ndarray.

  Examples

      >>> np.asfarray([2, 3])
      array([2.,  3.])
      >>> np.asfarray([2, 3], dtype='float')
      array([2.,  3.])
      >>> np.asfarray([2, 3], dtype='int8')
      array([2.,  3.])

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