added bytes and unicode to _supported_scalars_types

Author: alixdamman

larray/inout/common.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from datetime import date, time, datetime
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
+from larray.util.compat import bytes, unicode
 from larray.core.axis import Axis
 from larray.core.group import Group
 from larray.core.array import Array
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 
 # only for HDF5 and pickle formats
 # support list, tuple and dict?
-_supported_scalars_types = (int, float, bool, str, date, time, datetime)
+_supported_scalars_types = (int, float, bool, str, bytes, unicode, date, time, datetime)
 _supported_types = _supported_larray_types + _supported_scalars_types
 _supported_typenames = {cls.__name__ for cls in _supported_types}