Long integer arrays in Python; how? /Carl

[Robert Kern]

Carl wrote:
> I have the following problem 
> 
>     import Numeric
>     dim = 1
>     bits = 32
>     v = Numeric.zeros((dim, bits), 'l')
>     for j in range(bits):
>         v[0][j] = 1L << bits - j - 1
> 
> The problem is the last assignment, which is not valid, since the integer is
> on the right hand side is to large to be assigned to an array element.

Use Numeric.UnsignedInt32 as the data type.

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