Added handling of output of fields returned from dtypedescr to constructor. Fixed itemsize reference in fortranobject.c

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scipy/base/_internal.py b/scipy/base/_internal.py
index 626a8439f..654188f41 100644
--- a/scipy/base/_internal.py
+++ b/scipy/base/_internal.py
@@ -216,7 +216,10 @@ def _usefields(adict):
             raise ValueError, "invalid offset."
         names.append(fname)
         offsets.append(num)
-        formats.append(dtypedescr(obj[0]))
+        format = dtypedescr(obj[0])
+        if (format.itemsize == 0):
+            raise ValueError, "all itemsizes must be given."
+        formats.append(format)
         if (n > 2):
             title = obj[2]
         else:
diff --git a/scipy/f2py/src/fortranobject.c b/scipy/f2py/src/fortranobject.c
index e1fde0afa..d5da43a88 100644
--- a/scipy/f2py/src/fortranobject.c
+++ b/scipy/f2py/src/fortranobject.c
@@ -468,7 +468,6 @@ static int swap_arrays(PyArrayObject* arr1, PyArrayObject* arr2) {
   SWAPTYPE(arr1->base,arr2->base,PyObject*);
   SWAPTYPE(arr1->descr,arr2->descr,PyArray_Descr*);
   SWAPTYPE(arr1->flags,arr2->flags,int);
-  SWAPTYPE(arr1->itemsize, arr2->itemsize, int);
   /* SWAPTYPE(arr1->weakreflist,arr2->weakreflist,PyObject*); */
   return 0;
 }