truncating null bytes in 'S' breaks decoding that needs them
a = np.array([si.encode('utf-16LE') for si in ['Õsc', 'zxc']], dtype='S')
a
array([b'\xd5\x00s\x00c', b'z\x00x\x00c'],
dtype='|S6')
[ai.decode('utf-16LE') for ai in a]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#118,
Josef,
Nice find -- another reason why 'S' can NOT be used a-is for arbitrary
bytes.
See the other thread for my proposals about that.
messy workaround (arrays in contrast to scalars are not truncated in
`tostring`)
[a[i:i+1].tostring().decode('utf-16LE') for i in range(len(a))]
['Õsc',
