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holoscan::numpy_dtype

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const char * holoscan::numpy_dtype(
    const DLDataType dtype
)

Return a string providing the basic type of the homogeneous array in NumPy.

Note: This method assumes little-endian for now.

Returns: A const character pointer that represents a string

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