Re: [Numpy-discussion] asmatrix and asarray exception

[Keith G. <kwg...@gm...>]

On 10/11/06, Keith Goodman <kwg...@gm...> wrote:
> This works:
>
> >> M.asmatrix(['a', 'b', None])
> matrix([[a, b, None]], dtype=object)
>
> But this doesn't:
>
> >> M.asmatrix(['a', 'b', None, 'c'])
> TypeError: expected a readable buffer object
>
> >> M.__version__
> '1.0rc1'
>
> It also doesn't work for asarray and for tuples.
>

Here's a workaround:

>> M.asmatrix(['a', 'b', None, 'c'], dtype=object)
matrix([[a, b, None, c]], dtype=object)