From c1efbb1579c8facf9bf6f68dc33aebe7b4be02cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:44:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug in ticket #592 for non-array sequence bin arguments.

---
 numpy/lib/function_base.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/numpy/lib/function_base.py b/numpy/lib/function_base.py
index 711c609e8375..ea6b5d8fb96a 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/function_base.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/function_base.py
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ def histogram(a, bins=10, range=None, normed=False):
             mx += 0.5
         bins = linspace(mn, mx, bins, endpoint=False)
     else:
+        bins = asarray(bins)
         if(any(bins[1:]-bins[:-1] < 0)):
             raise AttributeError, 'bins must increase monotonically.'