convert_element_type

class saiunit.lax.convert_element_type(operand, new_dtype, **kwargs)

Elementwise cast.

Wraps XLA’s ConvertElementType operator, which performs an elementwise conversion from one type to another. Similar to a C++ static_cast.

Parameters:

• operand (Union[saiunit.Quantity, Array, ndarray, number, bool]) – an array or scalar value to be cast.

• new_dtype (Union[str, type[Any], dtype, SupportsDType]) – a NumPy dtype representing the target type.

Return type:

Union[saiunit.Quantity, Array]

Returns:

An array with the same shape as operand, cast elementwise to new_dtype.