merging back the new pyshapelib

[Bram de Greve]

Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2008 12:07, Bram de Greve wrote:
>   
>> This is caused by a change in the handling of numerical fields in the
>> shapelib C library.  Integer fields of more than 10 characters (as the
>> third column in that file is), are returned as doubles to avoid an
>> overflow.
>>     
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to return them as long int instead of double at 
> the python level?
>
>   
So you mean from C double back to python long int?  Perhaps.  There's an
API function that does exactly that: PyLong_FromDouble.  Would it be
better to return all integers as long ints in that case?

Bram

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