On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:19 PM Hameer Abbasi <einstein.edi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There still remains the question, do we return Python ints or np.int64s? > > - Python ints have the advantage of not overflowing. > - If we decide to add __round__ to arrays in the future, Python ints > may become inconsistent with our design, as such a method will return an > int64 array. > > > > This was issue was discussed in the weekly triage meeting today, and the > following plan of action was proposed: > > - change scalar floats to return integers for __round__ (which integer > type was not discussed, I propose np.int64) > - not change anything else: not 0d arrays and not other numpy > functionality > > The only reason that float.__round__() was allowed to change to returning ints was because ints became unbounded. If we also change to returning an integer type, it should be a Python int. -- Robert Kern
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