Re: [Numpy-discussion] implicit coersion int8 -> int16 ?

[Travis O. <oli...@ie...>]

Simon Burton wrote:
>>>> a=numpy.array([1,2,3],numpy.Int8)
>>>> a
>>>>         
> array([1, 2, 3], dtype=int8)
>   
>>>> a*2
>>>>         
> array([2, 4, 6], dtype=int16)
>   
>
> My little 2 lives happily as an int8, so why is the int8 array
> cast to an int16 ?
>   
Thanks for catching this bug in the logic of scalar upcasting.  It 
should only affect this one case.

It's now been fixed.

-Travis