[NumPy-Tickets] [NumPy] #952: Pickling an element of a recarray is silently broken

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#952: Pickling an element of a recarray is silently broken
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 Reporter:  philbinj    |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:          
Component:  numpy.core  |     Version:  devel   
 Keywords:              |  
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Changes (by bluesquall):

  * version:  none => devel


Comment:

 This bug still exists in numpy 2.0.0.dev8372

 I have no idea how to fix it, but I came across another clue. Apparently
 the issue is unique to indexing or slicing across records but not along
 records.

 WHAT STEPS REPRODUCE?

 {{{
 In [1]: import numpy as np; np.__version__
 Out[1]: '2.0.0.dev8372'

 In [2]: dtype = [('r',np.float),('g',np.float),('b',np.float)]

 In [3]: a = np.ones(2,dtype=dtype); a
 Out[3]:
 array([(1.0, 1.0, 1.0), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)],
       dtype=[('r', '<f8'), ('g', '<f8'), ('b', '<f8')])

 In [4]: ar = a.view(np.recarray); ar
 Out[4]:
 rec.array([(1.0, 1.0, 1.0), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)],
       dtype=[('r', '<f8'), ('g', '<f8'), ('b', '<f8')])

 In [5]: np.loads(ar['g'].dumps())
 Out[5]: array([ 1.,  1.])

 In [6]: np.loads(ar.g.dumps())
 Out[6]: array([ 1.,  1.])

 In [7]: np.loads(ar[0].dumps())
 Out[7]: (3.1502165757027449e-267, 4.7429364523866899e-309,
 1.0882549075156349e+175)

 }}}

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