pandas: Fix unpickle np arrays with py2+pd>0.19.x
Pandas 0.20.0 introduced a bug fix [1] which changed the behaviour of 'DataFrame.to_records()', so that the resulting Record objects dtype names are unicodes if the data frames column names were unicode. Before this bug fix the dtype names were str, no matter whether the column names were str or unicode. Unfortunately np unpickle breaks if dtype names are unicode [2]. Since many of our data frame columns are unicode, loading arrays often fails. In python3 this isn't a problem anymore, so until then we fix this by introducing a simple monkey patch to pandas, which basically reverts the mentioned bug fix. [1] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/11879 [2] Small example to reproduce this error: '' import os import numpy as np import pandas as pd r = pd.DataFrame({u'A':[1,2,3]}).to_records() a = np.ndarray(shape=r.shape, dtype=r.dtype.fields) p = "t" try: os.remove(p) except: pass with open(p, 'wb') as f: np.save(f, a) with open(p, 'rb') as f: np.load(f) '' /reviewed-on !1738 /reviewed-by @jerome @klaus