I am using Python/NumPy, and I have two arrays like the following:

array1 = [1 2 3]
array2 = [4 5 6]

And I would like to create a new array:

array3 = [[1 2 3], [4 5 6]]

and append items to it. So for example if the new items to append are:

array4 = [7 8 9]
array5 = [10 11 12]

Then now array3 would be an array with two rows and two columns like the one shown below:

array3= [[1 2 3], [4 5 6] [7 8 9], [10 11 12]]

I seem to have problems because the elements of my arrays are not separated by commas.

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4 Answers

It seems strange that you would write arrays without commas (is that a MATLAB syntax?)

Have you tried going through NumPy's documentation on multi-dimensional arrays?

It seems NumPy has a "Python-like" append method to add items to a NumPy n-dimensional array:

>>> p = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]])
>>> p = np.append(p, [[5,6]], 0)
>>> p = np.append(p, [[7],[8],[9]],1)
>>> p
array([[1, 2, 7], [3, 4, 8], [5, 6, 9]])

It has also been answered already...

From the documentation for MATLAB users:

You could use a matrix constructor which takes a string in the form of a matrix MATLAB literal:

mat("1 2 3; 4 5 6")
or
matrix("[1 2 3; 4 5 6]")

Please give it a try and tell me how it goes.

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You'll have problems creating lists without commas. It shouldn't be too hard to transform your data so that it uses commas as separating character.

Once you have commas in there, it's a relatively simple list creation operations:

array1 = [1,2,3]
array2 = [4,5,6]
array3 = [array1, array2]
array4 = [7,8,9]
array5 = [10,11,12]
array3 = [array3, [array4, array5]]

When testing we get:

print(array3)
[[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]], [[7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]]]

And if we test with indexing it works correctly reading the matrix as made up of 2 rows and 2 columns:

array3[0][1]
[4, 5, 6]
array3[1][1]
[10, 11, 12]

Hope that helps.

If the file is only numerical values separated by tabs, try using the csv library: (you can set the delimiter to '\t')

If you have a textual file in which every line represents a row in a matrix and has integers separated by spaces\tabs, wrapped by a 'arrayname = [...]' syntax, you should do something like:

import re
f = open("your-filename", 'rb')
result_matrix = []
for line in f.readlines(): match = re.match(r'\s*\w+\s+\=\s+\[(.*?)\]\s*', line) if match is None: pass # line syntax is wrong - ignore the line values_as_strings = match.group(1).split() result_matrix.append(map(int, values_as_strings))

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a=np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])

a.tolist()

tolist method mentioned above will return the nested Python list

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