On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That is to say, in this case C long has the same precision as C long long. That varies depending on the platform, which is one reason the precision nomenclature came in. It can be confusing, and 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.