Add a better error for type support.

[Soumya Snigdha Kundu]

  File "cc3d.pyx", line 336, in cc3d.connected_components
  File "cc3d.pyx", line 225, in cc3d.estimate_provisional_labels
TypeError: Type float16 not currently supported.

Listing what all are the available options would be nice.

[William Silversmith]

Thanks for the feedback! Here's what's supported iirc:

bool, int8, int16, int32, int64, uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64, float32, float64

float16 is more difficult to support because it's not a native type in C++ though there are some libraries to help with that. What you can do though (though it might not always work) is:

data.view(np.uint16) which will view the same data as uint16 and may allow it to be processed. Since the particularities of the actual value don't matter, only whether the values are equal, this can be okay.

[Soumya Snigdha Kundu]

Sorry, you may have misunderstood me. I mean to say that, just while presenting the error, you could just list out what the available options are so one does not need to come here to check. Like, within the TypeError itself.

I do not (personally) think it is required to add float16 because of what you said about the absence of the native typing.

[William Silversmith]

Ah I already did both! Check out the latest release. The supported types are printed out and float16 is supported for labeled images (but not continuous images).

[Soumya Snigdha Kundu]

That sounds great! Thank you so much :)