[Numpy-discussion] how to round to int (I mean 5.2 to 5 not 5.0)

[Robert Kern]

Sebastian Haase wrote:
> Hi,
> why does
> numpy.round(a)
> return a float ?

Partly because that's what the underlying C standard library function does and
what the Python function round() does. The reason they do that is because the
range of integers supported by the double precision floating point type is
larger than the range of integers supported by C ints.

In [17]: numpy.round(1e16)
Out[17]: 1e+16

In [18]: numpy.round(1e16).astype(int)
Out[18]: -2147483648

> I need something that I can use as indices for another array. Do I
> have to (implicitly) create a temporary array  and use:
> N.round(a).astype(N.int)  ?

Yup.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 an underlying truth."
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