# Should it really be necessary to do var.detach().cpu().numpy()?

**URL:** <https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/should-it-really-be-necessary-to-do-var-detach-cpu-numpy/35489>\
**Category:** autograd\
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/should-it-really-be-necessary-to-do-var-detach-cpu-numpy/35489 "2019-01-24T11:29:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/should-it-really-be-necessary-to-do-var-detach-cpu-numpy/35489/5 "2019-07-08T18:02:14Z")

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Fair enough - but could we at least get rid of the need for `X.cpu().numpy()`? Seems `X.numpy()` alone should be enough.

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