[Numpy-discussion] Integer type casting and OverflowError

[Scott Sinclair]

On 9 May 2013 12:45, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Scott Sinclair
> <scott.sinclair.za at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9 May 2013 12:21, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> With master numpy (and back to 1.6.1, at least):
>>>
>>> [~]
>>> |1> np.int32(3054212286)
>>> -1240755010
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems like at one time, this used to raise an OverflowError. We can
>>> see this in at least one place in scipy:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/scipy/interpolate/fitpack.py#L912
>>
>> No doubt I'm missing something, but isn't the OverflowError raised
>> here https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/scipy/interpolate/fitpack.py#L40
>> and not in Numpy?
>
> Heh. I wrote this email before I submitted the PR with that fix. :-)

Hah. I should have checked recent commits as well...

Cheers,
Scott