dtype of NumPy array created from Julia array is `object` on Julia nightly

[sethaxen]

Affects: PythonCall

Describe the bug

I'm executing the following code

julia> using PythonCall

pkg> conda add numpy

julia> Py(randn(10)).to_numpy().dtype

I expect the dtype to be a float64, and indeed, on Julia v1.10.0 and earlier, the result is Python: dtype('float64'). On the Julia nightly, the result is Python: dtype('O'), which corresponds to an object dtype.

Your system
For v1.10.0:

julia> using CondaPkg, Pkg

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.10.0
Commit 3120989f39b (2023-12-25 18:01 UTC)
Build Info:
 Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
 OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
 CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
 WORD_SIZE: 64
 LIBM: libopenlibm
 LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
 Threads: 11 on 8 virtual cores
Environment:
 JULIA_NUM_THREADS = auto
 JULIA_EDITOR = code

julia> Pkg.status()
Status `/tmp/jl_lFXo6Z/Project.toml`
 [992eb4ea] CondaPkg v0.2.22
 [6099a3de] PythonCall v0.9.15

julia> CondaPkg.status()
CondaPkg Status /tmp/jl_lFXo6Z/CondaPkg.toml
Environment
 /tmp/jl_lFXo6Z/.CondaPkg/env
Packages
 numpy v1.26.3

For nightly:

julia> using CondaPkg, Pkg

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.0-DEV.1341
Commit 63188d58c09 (2024-01-19 23:30 UTC)
Build Info:
 Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
 OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
 CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
 WORD_SIZE: 64
 LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
Threads: 8 default, 0 interactive, 4 GC (on 8 virtual cores)
Environment:
 JULIA_NUM_THREADS = auto
 JULIA_EDITOR = code

julia> Pkg.status()
Status `/tmp/jl_oeTJsz/Project.toml`
 [992eb4ea] CondaPkg v0.2.22
 [6099a3de] PythonCall v0.9.15

julia> CondaPkg.status()
CondaPkg Status /tmp/jl_oeTJsz/CondaPkg.toml
Environment
 /tmp/jl_oeTJsz/.CondaPkg/env
Packages
 numpy v1.26.3

[MilesCranmer]

Not sure if my issue was related in #441 but I see similar issue going Python -> Julia.

[cjdoris]

Oof that's a fun one! Personally I'm not going to worry about it until there is a release candidate though.

[sethaxen]

I checked this on Julia 1.11.7, 1.12.2, 1.13.0-alpha2, and it seems to be resolved on all of them.