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diff --git a/‎numpy/lib/tests/data/win64python2.npy
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@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 * text=auto
 tools/win32build/nsis_scripts/*.nsi.in eol=crlf
+
+# Numerical data files
+numpy/lib/tests/data/*.npy binary
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 import io
 import warnings
 from numpy.lib.utils import safe_eval
-from numpy.compat import asbytes, isfileobj, long, basestring
+from numpy.compat import asbytes, asstr, isfileobj, long, basestring
 
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     import pickle
@@ -410,6 +410,45 @@ def read_array_header_2_0(fp):
     """
     _read_array_header(fp, version=(2, 0))
 
+
+def _filter_header(s):
+    """Clean up 'L' in npz header ints.
+
+    Cleans up the 'L' in strings representing integers. Needed to allow npz
+    headers produced in Python2 to be read in Python3.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    s : byte string
+        Npy file header.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    header : str
+        Cleaned up header.
+
+    """
+    import tokenize
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        from io import StringIO
+    else:
+        from StringIO import StringIO
+ 
+    tokens = []
+    last_token_was_number = False
+    for token in tokenize.generate_tokens(StringIO(asstr(s)).read):
+        token_type = token[0]
+        token_string = token[1]
+        if (last_token_was_number and
+                token_type == tokenize.NAME and
+                token_string == "L"):
+            continue
+        else:
+            tokens.append(token)
+        last_token_was_number = (token_type == tokenize.NUMBER)
+    return tokenize.untokenize(tokens)
+
+ 
 def _read_array_header(fp, version):
     """
     see read_array_header_1_0
@@ -434,6 +473,7 @@ def _read_array_header(fp, version):
     #   "shape" : tuple of int
     #   "fortran_order" : bool
     #   "descr" : dtype.descr
+    header = _filter_header(header)
     try:
         d = safe_eval(header)
     except SyntaxError as e:
 
@@ -524,6 +524,16 @@ def test_compressed_roundtrip():
     assert_array_equal(arr, arr1)
 
 
+def test_python2_python3_interoperability():
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        fname = 'win64python2.npy'
+    else:
+        fname = 'python3.npy'
+    path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data', fname)
+    data = np.load(path)
+    assert_array_equal(data, np.ones(2))
+
+
 def test_version_2_0():
     f = BytesIO()
     # requires more than 2 byte for header