Describe the issue:

Passing nonsense to np.array can crash the whole intepreter.

Reproduce the code example:

#this worksnp.array(np.ones(10),dtype=None)#this also makes a sensible error because it is nonsensenp.array(np.ones(10),dtype=np.linalg)TypeError:Cannotinterpret'<module 'numpy.linalg' from '/home/samuel/miniconda3/envs/py310/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/linalg/__init__.py'>'asadatatype# this will happily segfault and kick you out of your program, while it should probably do the same as above insteadnp.array(np.ones(10),dtype=np.dtype)

Error message:

Segfault message, or untranslated In [10]: np.array(np.ones(10), dtype=np.dtype)fish : Tâche Tâche 1,,'bash -c'ipython --pylab' $argv' terminée par le signal SIGSEGV (Erreur de frontière d'adresse)

Runtime information:

1.26.1
3.10.0 (default, Mar 3 2022, 09:58:08) [GCC 7.5.0]

In [1]: print(numpy.show_runtime())
[{'numpy_version': '1.26.1',
'python': '3.10.0 (default, Mar 3 2022, 09:58:08) [GCC 7.5.0]',
'uname': uname_result(system='Linux', node='samuel-dmri', release='5.15.0-87-generic', version='#97~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 5 08:25:28 UTC 2023', machine='x86_64')},
{'simd_extensions': {'baseline': ['SSE', 'SSE2', 'SSE3'],
'found': ['SSSE3',
'SSE41',
'POPCNT',
'SSE42',
'AVX',
'F16C',
'FMA3',
'AVX2'],
'not_found': ['AVX512F',
'AVX512CD',
'AVX512_KNL',
'AVX512_KNM',
'AVX512_SKX',
'AVX512_CLX',
'AVX512_CNL',
'AVX512_ICL']}},
{'architecture': 'Haswell',
'filepath': '/home/samuel/miniconda3/envs/py310/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy.libs/libopenblas64_p-r0-0cf96a72.3.23.dev.so',
'internal_api': 'openblas',
'num_threads': 16,
'prefix': 'libopenblas',
'threading_layer': 'pthreads',
'user_api': 'blas',
'version': '0.3.23.dev'}]
None

Context for the issue:

Nothing bad, but it should probably just raise an error instead of crashing completely.

Not sure a traceback with gdb would be needed since it does not seems to be to obscure at first and easy to reproduce. I'd guess the np.dtype function/object just falls into the crack when you do not specify any dtype.