fix ulm/numpy/python2 file-object problem
workaround: file obejcts from builtins.open (aka io.open) would not be considered a file by Numpy; hence use the standard python2 open() mechanism
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workaround: file obejcts from builtins.open (aka io.open) would not be considered a file by Numpy; hence use the standard python2 open() mechanism