From d8f2b33396ae57a6ed37d3d77b2c9de673b3d1cb 2012-06-25 03:42:06
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-06-25 03:42:06
Subject: [PATCH] include dtype itself in metadata, not str representation

which is totally wrong for recarrays
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diff --git a/IPython/utils/newserialized.py b/IPython/utils/newserialized.py
index b960b16..c3336c7 100644
--- a/IPython/utils/newserialized.py
+++ b/IPython/utils/newserialized.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class SerializeIt(object):
                 self.obj = numpy.ascontiguousarray(self.obj, dtype=None)
                 self.typeDescriptor = 'ndarray'
                 self.metadata = {'shape':self.obj.shape,
-                                 'dtype':self.obj.dtype.str}
+                                 'dtype':self.obj.dtype}
         elif isinstance(self.obj, bytes):
             self.typeDescriptor = 'bytes'
             self.metadata = {}