[Numpy-discussion] size_t or npy_intp?
Tue Jul 27 10:27:21 CDT 2010
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
> From PEP 353:
> Why not size_t56 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0353/#id9>
> 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:
> for(index = length-1; index >= 0; index--)
> This loop will never terminate if index is changed from int to size_t.
Of course. Makes sense; thanks for the clarification.
> Dag Sverre
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