From 8949fe24c057973ece3940617d396addbcbf3875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Wiebe <mwiebe@enthought.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:40:40 -0500
Subject: ENH: Tighten up dtype parsing in general, to catch some more invalid
 datetime results

There is also a problem with 'O4' and 'O8', which are platform-specific.
I changed it to still accept both, but produce a deprecation warning.
---
 numpy/ma/core.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'numpy/ma')

diff --git a/numpy/ma/core.py b/numpy/ma/core.py
index bbd855cf8..2cb888d55 100644
--- a/numpy/ma/core.py
+++ b/numpy/ma/core.py
@@ -3527,10 +3527,10 @@ class MaskedArray(ndarray):
                 # convert to object array to make filled work
                 names = self.dtype.names
                 if names is None:
-                    res = self._data.astype("|O8")
+                    res = self._data.astype("O")
                     res[m] = f
                 else:
-                    rdtype = _recursive_make_descr(self.dtype, "|O8")
+                    rdtype = _recursive_make_descr(self.dtype, "O")
                     res = self._data.astype(rdtype)
                     _recursive_printoption(res, m, f)
         else:
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