Merge pull request #964 from pyiron/dependabot/pip/numpy-1.24.1

Bump numpy from 1.23.5 to 1.24.1

.ci_support/environment.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies:
 - gitpython =3.1.30
 - h5io =0.1.7
 - h5py =3.7.0
-- numpy =1.23.5
+- numpy =1.24.1
 - pandas =1.5.2
 - pathlib2 =2.3.7.post1
 - pint =0.20.1

pyiron_base/storage/hdfio.py

@@ -218,7 +218,10 @@ def _is_convertable_dtype_object_array(obj):
     # TODO: remove this function upon 1.0.0 release
     @staticmethod
     def _convert_dtype_obj_array(obj: np.ndarray):
-        result = np.array(obj.tolist())
+        try:
+            result = np.array(obj.tolist())
+        except ValueError:
+            result = np.array(obj.tolist(), dtype=object)
         if result.dtype != np.dtype(object):
             state.logger.warning(
                 f"Deprecated data structure! "

setup.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         'gitpython==3.1.30',
         'h5io==0.1.7',
         'h5py==3.7.0',
-        'numpy==1.23.5',
+        'numpy==1.24.1',
         'pandas==1.5.2',
         'pathlib2==2.3.7.post1',
         'pint==0.20.1',