[Numpy-discussion] Integer type casting and OverflowError

[Scott Sinclair]

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?

Cheers,
Scott