[Numpy-discussion] What are the 'p', 'P' types?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 25 February 2010 00:46, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> They are now typecodes but have no entries in the typename dictionary.

IIUC, p/P should map to signed/unsigned integers large enough to hold
a pointer on the platform.. So perhaps their names should be intpr_t
and uintptr_t ?

>
> The 'm', 'M' types also lack dictionary entries.
>

Map to 'timedelta' and 'datetime' ?



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