[Numpy-discussion] OverflowError: long too big to convert

Can someone explain this? I can't seem to coerce numpy into storing large integer values. I'm sure that I'm just overlooking something simple...

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import numpy a='1'*300 type(a)

<type 'str'>

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b=int(a) type(b)

<type 'long'>

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c=numpy.empty((2,2),long) c[:]=b

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#15>", line 1, in <module> c[:]=b OverflowError: long too big to convert

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Thanks,

-Mark