Test datatype for when passed for compuation

[chinmayshah99]

Description

When we call the result function, we just pass the python list as it is.

x = pydp.BoundedMean(1.0)
x.result([1,2,3,4])

What would be great is mention the datatype of the list in another argument, x.result([1,2,3,4], 'int') We want the new function definition to have the datatype as one of the argument, with float as the default argument. Note: The function definition of result below is for representation purpose and the original code will be in c++ (pybind11).

def result(list, datatype= 'float'): 
  pass

The idea behind doing this is if we know the datatype, the underlying c++ code can become a lot efficient as right now, we are just converting everything to float.

[codeboy5]

Are we planning to do this for every function ?

[chinmayshah99]

Yes

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[codeboy5]

I can take this up, I will try to add them for the util functions first and we can expand from it If everything works as expected .

[chinmayshah99]

We have already added datatype in #249 . We just need to make sure we do the cast, at the same time raise a warning.