On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I've often fantasized getting rid of the long type altogether ;) So it isn't exactly intended, but there is a reason...


It is also confusing that numpy has two constructors that produce 32-bit integers on 32-bit platforms and 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, but neither of these constructors is called "long".  Instead, they are called numpy.int_ and numpy.intp.