[NumPy-Tickets] [NumPy] #1990: Data can be truncated in creation of an array from a mixed sequence of numeric values and strings

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#1990: Data can be truncated in creation of an array from a mixed sequence of
numeric values and strings
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 Reporter:  thouis      |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  1.6.2   
Component:  numpy.core  |     Version:  1.6.0   
 Keywords:              |  
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 When an array is created from a sequence of numeric (boolean, int, float,
 complex) and string (bytes, str, unicode) values, the resulting array type
 is string, but only the string values are being used to choose the string
 length, leading to truncation of data.

 Code:
 import numpy as np
 for numericval in [True, 1234, 123.4, complex(1, 3)]:
     for stringconversion in [str, unicode, bytes]:
        print repr(np.array([numericval, stringconversion('abc')]))

 Result:
 array(['Tru', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array([u'Tru', u'abc'],
       dtype='<U3')
 array(['Tru', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array(['123', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array([u'123', u'abc'],
       dtype='<U3')
 array(['123', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array(['123', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array([u'123', u'abc'],
       dtype='<U3')
 array(['123', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array(['(1+', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')
 array([u'(1+', u'abc'],
       dtype='<U3')
 array(['(1+', 'abc'],
       dtype='|S3')

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