*/
    public String tostring() {
        try {
            return new String(PyMultiarray.toByteArray(
                    PyMultiarray.array(this).data,
                    this._typecode), "ISO-8859-1");
        } catch (final UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw Py.RuntimeError("ISO-LATIN-1 encoding unavailable, can't convert to string.");
        }
    }