[Numpy-discussion] ValueError: low level cast function is for unequal type numbers

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 12/13/2012 1:57 PM, Andrew Collette wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> the following code using np.object_ data types works with numpy 1.5.1
>> but fails with 1.6.2. Is this intended or a regression? Other data
>> types, np.float64 for example, seem to work.
>
> I am also seeing this problem; there was a change to how string types
> are handled in h5py 2.1.0 which triggers this bug.  It's a serious
> inconvenience, as people can't do e.g. np.copy(<hdf5 dataset object>)
> any more.
>
>> These downstream issues could be related:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/h5py/issues/detail?id=217
>
> Yes, this seems to be the cause of issue 217.
>
> Andrew


Sorry, I forgot to mention that I submitted a pull request at 
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/2798>.

Christoph