numpy array dtype is coming as int32 by default in a windows 10 64 bit machine

Question

I have installed Anaconda 3 64 bit on my laptop and written the following code in Spyder:

import numpy.distutils.system_info as sysinfo import numpy as np import platform  sysinfo.platform_bits  platform.architecture()  my_array = np.array([0,1,2,3]) my_array.dtype 

Output of these commands show the following:

sysinfo.platform_bits  Out[31]: 64  platform.architecture() Out[32]: ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')  my_array = np.array([0,1,2,3]) my_array.dtype Out[33]: dtype('int32') 

My question is that even though my system is 64bit, why by default the array type is int32 instead of int64?

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Default integer type np.int_ is C long:

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.10.1/user/basics.types.html

But C long is int32 in win64.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9c3yd98k.aspx

This is kind of a weirdness of the win64 platform.