tf.cast

Casts a tensor to a new type.

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Main aliases

tf.dtypes.cast

Compat aliases for migration

See Migration guide for more details.

tf.compat.v1.cast, tf.compat.v1.dtypes.cast

tf.cast(
    x, dtype, name=None
)

The operation casts x (in case of Tensor) or x.values (in case of SparseTensor or IndexedSlices) to dtype.

For example:

x = tf.constant([1.8, 2.2], dtype=tf.float32)
tf.cast(x, tf.int32)
<tf.Tensor: shape=(2,), dtype=int32, numpy=array([1, 2], dtype=int32)>

Notice tf.cast has an alias tf.dtypes.cast:

x = tf.constant([1.8, 2.2], dtype=tf.float32)
tf.dtypes.cast(x, tf.int32)
<tf.Tensor: shape=(2,), dtype=int32, numpy=array([1, 2], dtype=int32)>

The operation supports data types (for x and dtype) of uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64, int8, int16, int32, int64, float16, float32, float64, complex64, complex128, bfloat16. In case of casting from complex types (complex64, complex128) to real types, only the real part of x is returned. In case of casting from real types to complex types (complex64, complex128), the imaginary part of the returned value is set to 0. The handling of complex types here matches the behavior of numpy.

Note casting nan and inf values to integral types has undefined behavior.

Args
x	A Tensor or SparseTensor or IndexedSlices of numeric type. It could be uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64, int8, int16, int32, int64, float16, float32, float64, complex64, complex128, bfloat16.
dtype	The destination type. The list of supported dtypes is the same as x.
name	A name for the operation (optional).

Returns
A Tensor or SparseTensor or IndexedSlices with same shape as x and same type as dtype.

Raises
TypeError	If x cannot be cast to the dtype.