Using numpy.reshape in python

Question

I am trying to use numpy.reshape to get a matrix of 2x100. I have a list having 200 elements. Here is my code- vec is my list containing 200 elements-

[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

Here is my code-

data=np.array(vec)
shape = ( 2, 100 )
data.reshape(shape)
print(data)

But I do not get a 2x100 matrix. This is what I get-

[1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

Answer 1

reshape does not modify the array. It returns a new reshaped array. Use data = data.reshape(shape).