Force numpy to create array of objects

Question

I have an array:

x = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])

and I want to create another array of shape=(1, 1) and dtype=np.ob

Answer 1

Found a solution myself:

a=np.zeros(shape=(2, 2), dtype=np.object)
a[:] = [[x, x], [x, x]]