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Lenar Hoyt
Lenar Hoyt

Reputation: 6159

How can I initialize an empty Numpy array with a given number of dimensions?

I basically want to initialize an empty 6-tensor, like this:

a = np.array([[[[[[]]]]]])

Is there a better way than writing the brackets explicitly?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 26591

Answers (5)

user16952851
user16952851

Reputation: 11

This should do it:

x = np.array([])

Upvotes: 1

ChristopherC
ChristopherC

Reputation: 1665

You could directly use the ndarray constructor:

numpy.ndarray(shape=(1,) * 6)

Or the empty variant, since it seems to be more popular:

numpy.empty(shape=(1,) * 6)

Upvotes: 1

hpaulj
hpaulj

Reputation: 231665

Iteratively adding rows of that rank-1 using np.concatenate(a,b,axis=0)

Don't. Creating an array iteratively is slow, since it has to create a new array at each step. Plus a and b have to match in all dimensions except the concatenation one.

np.concatenate((np.array([[[]]]),np.array([1,2,3])), axis=0)

will give you dimensions error.

The only thing you can concatenate to such an array is an array with size 0 dimenions

In [348]: np.concatenate((np.array([[]]),np.array([[]])),axis=0)
Out[348]: array([], shape=(2, 0), dtype=float64)
In [349]: np.concatenate((np.array([[]]),np.array([[1,2]])),axis=0)
------
ValueError: all the input array dimensions except for the concatenation axis must match exactly
In [354]: np.array([[]])
Out[354]: array([], shape=(1, 0), dtype=float64)
In [355]: np.concatenate((np.zeros((1,0)),np.zeros((3,0))),axis=0)
Out[355]: array([], shape=(4, 0), dtype=float64)

To work iteratively, start with a empty list, and append to it; then make the array at the end.

a = np.zeros((1,1,1,1,1,0)) could be concatenated on the last axis with another np.ones((1,1,1,1,1,n)) array.

In [363]: np.concatenate((a,np.array([[[[[[1,2,3]]]]]])),axis=-1)
Out[363]: array([[[[[[ 1.,  2.,  3.]]]]]])

Upvotes: 1

Marco
Marco

Reputation: 897

You can do something like np.empty(shape = [1] * (dimensions - 1) + [0]). Example:

>>> a = np.array([[[[[[]]]]]])
>>> b = np.empty(shape = [1] * 5 + [0])
>>> a.shape == b.shape
True

Upvotes: 3

avip
avip

Reputation: 1465

You can use empty or zeros.

For example, to create a new array of 2x3, filled with zeros, use: numpy.zeros(shape=(2,3))

Upvotes: 5

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