On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe@gmail.com> wrote:

I took a quick look at this issue and committed a fix. PyArray_FromString was doing a check to exclude object arrays, but that check was incorrect. Now it should appropriately raise an exception instead of creating an invalid array.

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/f75bfab3a2ab74ac82047f153a36c71c58fe3732

-Mark

Thanks for the fix.

Now that line yields:

I[6]: k = np.fromstring(c.read(dt.itemsize), dt)[0]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/gsever/Desktop/python-repo/numpy/<ipython console> in <module>()

ValueError: Cannot create an object array from a string