[SciPy-dev] Nested arrays

[Sasha]

> It would be literally one-line of code to turn off the returning of the
> hybrid object arrays, so I would not hesitate to do it and then see what
> kind of complaints we get :-)

Is this intended?

>>> type(array(1.0).astype(object))
<type 'float'>

Breaks printing of ma zero rank arrays:

>>> print ma.array(1.0,mask=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: _MaskedPrintOption instance has no attribute '__float__'


-- sasha