On Ubuntu 11.04 64bit, trying to call e.g. QwtPlotCurve.setData([x,y],[1,1]), where x and y are numpy array elements (and thus are numpy.float32 types rather than standard floats), produces:
TypeError: the sequence may only contain float, int or long types
Same code works fine on 10.04, so perhaps I should be filing this as an Ubuntu bug?