June 18, 2015
11:55 a.m.
Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
In py3, 'int' is an arbitrary width integer bignum, like py2 'long', which is fundamentally different from int32 and int64 in both semantics and implementation.
Only when stored in an ndarray. An array scalar object does not need to care about the exact number of bits used for storage as long as the storage is large enough, which a python int always is. Sturla