[GitHub] eric-haibin-lin commented on a change in pull request #8403: dtype default to source_array.dtype for sparse ndarrays

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eric-haibin-lin commented on a change in pull request #8403: dtype default to source_array.dtype for sparse ndarrays
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/8403#discussion_r146637417
 
 

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 File path: python/mxnet/ndarray/sparse.py
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 @@ -727,6 +727,18 @@ def _prepare_src_array(source_array, dtype):
             raise TypeError('values must be array like object')
     return source_array
 
+def _prepare_default_dtype(src_array, dtype):
+    """Prepare the value of dtype if `dtype` is None. If `src_array` is an NDArray, numpy.ndarray
+    or scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix, return src_array.dtype. float32 is returned otherwise."""
+    if dtype is None:
+        if isinstance(src_array, (NDArray, np.ndarray)):
+            dtype = src_array.dtype
+        elif spsp and isinstance(src_array, spsp.csr.csr_matrix):
 
 Review comment:
   scipy is an optional dependency right now. If scipy is not there, spsp is None

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