---
title: "dtype"
sidebar_label: "dtype"
description: "The clika_runtime dtype class."
---

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The type of the dtype objects (clika_runtime.float32, clika_runtime.int8, ...). A dtype object is what dtype= takes and what Tensor.dtype returns; compare with ==, read itemsize / is_floating_point / is_signed.

## `bits` (property)

Bits per element, exact for the sub-byte types (int4 -> 4).

## `is_complex` (property)

False: no complex dtype exists.

## `is_floating_point` (property)

True for every floating format (float16 through the float8/6/4 families).

## `is_signed` (property)

True when the format carries a sign (signed integers and the signed floating formats).

## `itemsize` (property)

Bytes per element (1 for the sub-byte types; see bits).

## `name` (property)

The canonical name: "float32", "bfloat16", "int8", ...

## `__init__`

```python
__init____init__(self, name: str) -> None
```

__init__(self, name: str) -> None

dtype(name) -> dtype

The dtype object named by a string: the canonical names ("float32", "bfloat16", "uint4", ...) and the torch aliases ("float", "half", "double", "short", "int", "long").