Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nobody Subject: Re: data type and logarithm Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:16:52 +0100 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.python References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 10 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d9c1f637.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=fT`geZ0;P22o6X8?FT:8^?nok4Z\ print rho.dtype > print entropy.dtype > > I get |S22 , what's that? A string. You probably want to convert "columns" to floats before appending its elements to the array.