Maximum and Minimum values for ints

Question

I am looking for minimum and maximum values for integers in python. For eg., in Java, we have Integer.MIN_VALUE and Integer.MAX_VALUE. Is there som

Answer 1

If you want the max for array or list indices (equivalent to size_t in C/C++), you can use numpy:

np.iinfo(np.intp).max

This is same as sys.maxsize however advantage is that you don't need import sys just for this.

If you want max for native int on the machine:

np.iinfo(np.intc).max

You can look at other available types in doc.

For floats you can also use sys.float_info.max.