fields.buffers.base.BufferBase.astype#
- BufferBase.astype(dtype: Any, *args, **kwargs) BufferBase[source]#
Return a copy of this buffer with a different data type.
This performs a type conversion using the underlying array and returns a new buffer of the same class with the updated dtype.
- Parameters:
dtype (
data-type) – The target data type for the returned array.*args – Additional positional arguments forwarded to from_array.
**kwargs – Additional keyword arguments forwarded to astype() and from_array.
- Returns:
A new buffer instance with the specified data type.
- Return type: