Merge pull request #1399 from zm711/check-key

Check that keys of nested dictionaries in annotations are `str`

Author: apdavison

neo/core/baseneo.py

@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ def _check_annotations(value):
         if not issubclass(value.dtype.type, ALLOWED_ANNOTATION_TYPES):
             raise ValueError(f"Invalid annotation. NumPy arrays with dtype {value.dtype.type}" f"are not allowed")
     elif isinstance(value, dict):
-        for element in value.values():
+        for key, element in value.items():
+            if not isinstance(key, str):
+                raise TypeError(f"Annotations keys must be strings not of type {type(key)}")
             _check_annotations(element)
     elif isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
         for element in value: