[Numpy-discussion] broken recarray

[Jonathan Taylor]

hi,

sorry to sound like a broken recarray, but i {\em really} don't 
understand the origin of this error message. i have more complicated 
examples, but i don't even understand this very simple unpythonic 
behaviour. can anybody help me out? i have reproduced this error on 
three different machines with python2.4 (two debian unstables, one red 
hat ? (a redhat enterprise server at work that i installed numpy on)). 
my complicated examples also reproduce on these three different 
machines.....

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[jtaylo at miller jtaylo]$ python2.4
Python 2.4 (#1, Feb  9 2006, 18:46:06)
[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import numpy as N
 >>>
 >>> desc = N.dtype({'names':['x'], 'formats':[N.Float]})
 >>>
 >>> print N.array([(3.,),(4.,)], dtype=desc)
[(3.0,) (4.0,)]
 >>> print N.array([[3.],[4.]], dtype=desc)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: expected a readable buffer object
 >>>
 >>>
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any ideas?

jonathan

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