Merge pull request #11669 from charris/fix-void_getitem-regression

BUG: Fix regression in `void_getitem`

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/arraytypes.c.src b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/arraytypes.c.src
index b4158ec8e..d622effe6 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/arraytypes.c.src
+++ b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/arraytypes.c.src
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ VOID_getitem(void *input, void *vap)
         return (PyObject *)ret;
     }
 
-    return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(PyArray_DATA(ap), descr->elsize);
+    return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(ip, descr->elsize);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py
index 5f4410d54..36478ddb7 100644
--- a/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py
+++ b/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py
@@ -2368,6 +2368,13 @@ class TestRegression(object):
         del va
         assert_equal(x, b'\x00\x00\x00\x00')
 
+    def test_void_getitem(self):
+        # Test fix for gh-11668.
+        assert_(np.array([b'a'], 'V1').astype('O') == b'a')
+        assert_(np.array([b'ab'], 'V2').astype('O') == b'ab')
+        assert_(np.array([b'abc'], 'V3').astype('O') == b'abc')
+        assert_(np.array([b'abcd'], 'V4').astype('O') == b'abcd')
+
     def test_structarray_title(self):
         # The following used to segfault on pypy, due to NPY_TITLE_KEY
         # not working properly and resulting to double-decref of the