```
In [19]: morphology.binary_dilation(np.zeros((5, 5)), np.ones((17,
17))).dtype
Out[19]: dtype('int64')
```


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Johannes Sch?nberger <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In skimage/morphology/binary.py:
>
> >          The array to store the result of the morphology. If None is
> >          passed, a new array will be allocated.
> >
> >      Returns
> >      -------
> > -    eroded : bool array
> > -        The result of the morphological erosion.
> > +    eroded : ndarray of bool or intp
>
> out != conv, so I don't see a case where it would be intp except for the
> case when the user passes out as intp.
>
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