Need help with an array problem.

[SpreadTooThin]

Robert Kern wrote:
> 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.
>
> --

So there is no short(number) casting?


> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
>   that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>   an underlying truth."
>    -- Umberto Eco