# numpy.lib.format.descr_to_dtype

lib.format.descr_to_dtype(descr)

  Returns a dtype based off the given description.

  This is essentially the reverse of dtype_to_descr(). It will remove the valueless padding fields created by, i.e. simple fields like dtype(‘float32’), and then convert the description to its corresponding dtype.

  Parameters:
    descr object

      The object retrieved by dtype.descr. Can be passed to numpy.dtype() in order to replicate the input dtype.

  Returns:
    dtype dtype

      The dtype constructed by the description.