Conversions#

Python to Octave Types#

Shows the round-trip data types, originating in Python. Lists and sets will be converted to a numeric array if possible, falling back on cells. If an Octave cell consisting of numbers is desired, use a tuple. Cell, Struct, StructArray are Oct2Py convenience classes.

Python

Octave

Python

int

int32

np.int32

long

int64

np.int64

float

double

np.float64

complex

double

np.complex128

str

char

unicode

unicode

cell

unicode

bool

logical

np.bool

None

nan

np.nan

dict

struct

Struct

tuple

cell

Cell

list

array or cell

ndarray or Cell

set

array or cell

ndarray or Cell

Struct

struct

Struct

StructArray

struct array

StructArray

Numpy to Octave Types#

Note that when convert_to_float is set (default is True), integer types are converted to floating point before sending them to Octave.

Numpy

Octave

Numpy

np.int8

int8

np.int8

np.int16

int16

np.int16

np.int32

int32

np.int32

np.int64

int64

np.int64

np.uint8

uint8

np.uint8

np.uint16

uint16

np.uint16

np.uint32

uint32

np.uint32

np.uint64

uint64

np.uint64

np.float16

double

np.float64

np.float32

single

np.float32

np.float64

double

np.float64

np.float128

double

np.float64

np.double

double

np.float64

np.complex64

double

np.complex64

np.complex128

double

np.complex128

np.complex256

double

np.complex128

np.bool

logical

bool

np.str

cell

list

np.object

cell

list

sparse

sparse

sparse

recarray

struct array

StructArray

Octave to Python Types#

These are handled unambiguously. The only known data type that is not transferable is a function pointer, since Octave cannot save them to the v6 MAT file format.

Octave

Python

array

ndarray

cell

Cell

struct

Struct

struct array

StructArray

logical

ndarray (of uint8)

sparse

sparse

user defined object

Oct2Py object pointer