I am having trouble with numpy arrays that have (for some reason) an  
"object" dtype. All that happens in my code is that float values are  
appended to a multidimensional array, this array is transposed, and  
the transposed array is sent to matplotlib. Unfortunately, the array  
ends up being of type "object", which is not recognized by matplotlib:

(Pdb) y[:5]
array([575.060695363, 618.395159954, 817.767177867, 601.659726372,
        978.607427424], dtype=object)

(Pdb) scatter(x,y)
*** TypeError: function not supported for these types, and can't  
coerce safely to supported types

Moreover, this array, which clearly contains nothing but floats  
cannot be cast to a float array:

(Pdb) array(y,float)
*** TypeError: array cannot be safely cast to required type

Can anyone shed some light on this? I am utterly confused.

Thanks,
C.

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