Sorry for bad naming, I hit the "send" button too fast. Intended title: "Possible documentation bug for numpy.array".
Jatorrizko mezua: al., 2021-03-01 01:30 +0100, egilea: Michal Radwanski > Hello, > > I'm not sure if it's expected behaviour or a bug, so I decided to > write > here. First an example: > In [4]: array([2**63]) > Out[4]: array([9223372036854775808], dtype=uint64) > > In [5]: array([2**63-1, 2**63]) > Out[5]: array([9.22337204e+18, 9.22337204e+18]) > > > The docs for `numpy.array` mention, that: > > dtype : data-type, optional > The desired data-type for the array. If not given, then the type > will be determined as the minimum type required to hold > the objects in the sequence. > > I understand the type promotions here, but I believe that the > documentation is wrong in this case. Indeed, the minumum type in the > latter case would be 'uint64'. > > Is it a bug worth submitting/fixing? > > -- Z wyrazami szacunku Michał Radwański With kind regards Michał Radwański _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
