From 17a739263d2cd560f7aaf063e75f4ff9a4aa45ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Augustin <sven.augustin@psi.ch>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 22:10:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bsread cannot handle object arrays

---
 dap/utils/bsreadext.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dap/utils/bsreadext.py b/dap/utils/bsreadext.py
index dce3a9f..98c3789 100644
--- a/dap/utils/bsreadext.py
+++ b/dap/utils/bsreadext.py
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ def list_to_array(x):
         # let numpy figure out the dtype
         return np.array(x)
     except ValueError:
-        # the above fails for ragged lists, which need to be object arrays
-        return np.array(x, dtype=object)
+        # the above fails for ragged lists but bsread also cannot handle object arrays
+        return None