[Numpy-discussion] size_t or npy_intp?

[Kurt Smith]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
<dagss at student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
>  From PEP 353:
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>    Why not size_t56 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0353/#id9>
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> An initial attempt to implement this feature tried to use size_t. It
> quickly turned out that this cannot work: Python uses negative indices
> in many places (to indicate counting from the end). Even in places where
> size_t would be usable, too many reformulations of code where necessary,
> e.g. in loops like:
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> for(index = length-1; index >= 0; index--)
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> This loop will never terminate if index is changed from int to size_t.

Of course.  Makes sense; thanks for the clarification.

Kurt

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> Dag Sverre