{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Blosc/bcolz/issues/243","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Blosc/bcolz/issues/243/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Blosc/bcolz/issues/243/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Blosc/bcolz/issues/243/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Blosc/bcolz/issues/243","id":103572607,"number":243,"title":"bulk append of object arrays to ctable fails when slicing and repring","user":{"login":"cpcloud","id":417981,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/417981?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud","html_url":"https://github.com/cpcloud","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpcloud/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-08-27T18:56:38Z","updated_at":"2015-08-27T18:56:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"```\r\nIn [7]: from bcolz import ctable\r\n\r\nIn [8]: import pandas as pd\r\n\r\nIn [9]: recs = pd.DataFrame(dict(a=list('abcd'), b=np.random.randint(10, size=4))).to_records(index=False).view(np.ndarray).copy()\r\n\r\nIn [10]: c = ctable(np.array([], dtype=recs.dtype), rootdir='df')\r\n\r\nIn [11]: c.append(recs)\r\n\r\nIn [12]: c  # calls repr under the hood\r\nValueError: chunkfile df/a/data/__-3.blp not found\r\n\r\nIn [13]: c[:2]\r\nValueError: could not broadcast input array from shape (4) into shape (2)\r\n```"}}