recarray.astype(dtype, order='K', casting='unsafe', subok=True, copy=True)
Copy of the array, cast to a specified type. Parameters:
dtype : str or dtype Typecode or data-type to which the array is cast. order : {?C?, ?F?, ?A?, ?K?}, optional Controls the memory layout order of the result. ?C? means C order, ?F? means Fortran order, ?A? means ?F? order if all the arrays are Fortran contiguous, ?C? order otherwise, and ?K? means as close to the order the array elements appear in memory as