Need help with an array problem.

[Robert Kern]

jakobsg at gmail.com wrote:
> To your question on casting long to short. This is how:
> a=1234L     # long
> b=int(a)       # int (short)

No, a Python int is a C long. A Python long is an arbitrary-precision number and 
does not correspond to any C type.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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