Python node failing - No serializer extension having the id or processing python type "int"

I wonder if the problems could somehow be connected. Since the R version 3.5 users experience problems with getting back results from R (at least on the mac). This feels similar. Within the Python or R everything works fine and then there is a problem getting it back to KNIME with some strange error messages about numeric formats. Or could it be that there is a Java thing?