On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Francesc Alted <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm a bit confused on which datatype should I use when referring to NumPy > ndarray lengths. In one hand I'd use `size_t` that is the canonical way to > refer to lengths of memory blocks. In the other hand, `npy_intp` seems the > standard data type used in NumPy for this. > > They have different ranges, npy_intp is signed and in later versions of Python is the same as Py_ssize_t, while size_t is unsigned. It would be a bad idea to mix the two. Chuck
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