From de97167a48272e9d62a6f44dba75ce2aff4d1a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BerSchneider <244539296+BerSchneider@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 10:35:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix conversion to numpy array for data with eroded elements.

---
 src/lasso/dyna/binout.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lasso/dyna/binout.py b/src/lasso/dyna/binout.py
index 02a6300..60ab561 100644
--- a/src/lasso/dyna/binout.py
+++ b/src/lasso/dyna/binout.py
@@ -338,11 +338,16 @@ def _get_variable(self, path):
                 if time_symbol:
                     time += time_symbol.read()
 
+        try:
+            data_array = np.array(data)
+        except ValueError:
+            data_array = np.array(data, dtype=object)
+
         # return sorted by time
         if len(time) == len(data):
-            return np.array(data)[np.argsort(time)]
+            return data_array[np.argsort(time)]
 
-        return np.array(data)
+        return data_array
 
     def _collect_variables(self, symbol):
         """Collect all variables from a symbol