From 5a58da43ff1465c4ead6d5d886035ef51cbba14d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Kochurov <max.kochurov@pymc-devs.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:54:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update pytensor/scalar/basic.py

Co-authored-by: Ricardo Vieira <28983449+ricardoV94@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 pytensor/scalar/basic.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pytensor/scalar/basic.py b/pytensor/scalar/basic.py
index e59aaf3d2f..3204439fdc 100644
--- a/pytensor/scalar/basic.py
+++ b/pytensor/scalar/basic.py
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ def _cast_scalar(x, dtype):
         if hasattr(x, "astype"):
             return x.astype(dtype)
         else:
-            return x
+            return getattr(np, dtype)(x)
 
     def perform(self, node, inputs, output_storage):
         if self.nout == 1: