# array type option for Python Calculator
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/array-type-option-for-python-calculator/10002
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [July 13, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/array-type-option-for-python-calculator/10002 "2022-07-13T13:30:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/array-type-option-for-python-calculator/10002/1 "2022-07-13T13:30:28Z")
The `Calculator` filter has a `Result Array Type` advanced option. This is pretty nice when doing certain operations. Would it be possible to add this for the `Python Calculator`? Seems to me like it wouldn’t be too hard but with numpy and all of the functionality of the `Python Calculator` there may be some gotcha I’m not seeing.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/array-type-option-for-python-calculator/10002/2 "2022-07-13T13:30:55Z")
Most definitely. This should be simple to implement.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/array-type-option-for-python-calculator/10002/3 "2022-07-13T14:11:38Z")
Things usually seem _easy_ to implement when I’m not tasked with implementing them 🙂
I created an issue at [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21468](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21468).
Thanks,
Andy