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diff --git a/doc/release/upcoming_changes/21995.compatibility.rst b/doc/release/upcoming_changes/21995.compatibility.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 0ae5e3626..000000000 --- a/doc/release/upcoming_changes/21995.compatibility.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -Returned arrays respect uniqueness of dtype kwarg objects ---------------------------------------------------------- -When the ``dtype`` keyword argument is used with :py:func:`np.array()` -or :py:func:`asarray()`, the dtype of the returned array now -always exactly matches the dtype provided by the caller. - -In some cases this change means that a *view* rather than the -input array is returned. -The following is an example for this on 64bit Linux where ``long`` -and ``longlong`` are the same precision but different ``dtypes``:: - - >>> arr = np.array([1, 2, 3], dtype="long") - >>> new_dtype = np.dtype("longlong") - >>> new = np.asarray(arr, dtype=new_dtype) - >>> new.dtype is new_dtype - True - >>> new is arr - False - -Before the change, the ``dtype`` did not match because ``new is arr`` -was ``True``. |