numpy arrays to python compatible arrays

Javier Montoya jmontoyaz at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 05:32:19 EDT 2010


On Jun 11, 12:29 am, Martin <mdeka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 9:02 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi... at semanchuk.com> wrote:
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> > On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:58 AM,JavierMontoyawrote:
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> > > Dear all,
>
> > > I'm new to python and have been working with the numpy package. I have
> > > some numpy float arrays (obtained from np.fromfile and np.cov
> > > functions) and would like to convert them to simple python arrays.
> > > I was wondering which is the best way to do that? Is there any
> > > function to do that?
>
> > HiJavier,
> > Since you are new to Python I'll ask whether you want to convert Numpy  
> > arrays to Python arrays (as you stated) or Python lists. Python lists  
> > are used very frequently; Python arrays see very little use outside of  
> > numpy.
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> > If you can use a Python list, the .tolist() member of the numpy array  
> > object should do the trick.
>
> > bye
> > P
>
> as Philip said...though I very much doubt you really want to do this?
> Why wouldn't you just keep it in a numpy array?

Thanks for the suggestions! The main reason not to use a numpy array
is because I'm
using a package that doesn't work with numpy arrays.
With the .tolist() conversion it's now working fine, thanks!



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