Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Furthermore, adding int64 >>> and uint64 returns float64. >> >> This is a grievous kluge, on the grounds that no-one is really sure >> *what* to do in this case. > > It doesn't seem unreasonable to me : casting int64 to uint64 or uint64 > to int64 could lead to disastrous truncation. float64 can exactly > represent integers +/- 2**53 and will have some defined relative error > above that.
We could promote to Python int on Python 3 and long on Python 2. Sturla _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
