[Numpy-discussion] initializing an array of lists

[Christopher Barker]

alan@ajackson.org wrote:
> myarray = zeros( (xdim,ydim), dtype=object)
> and then iterate through the elements initializing then to empty lists, but 
> surely there is a better way.

I tried this:

In [3]: a = np.empty((2,3), dtype=np.object)

In [5]: a[:,:] = []

but got:

ValueError: shape mismatch: objects cannot be broadcast to a single shape

Is that a bug? Or is it simply too ambiguous for numpy to figure out 
what the heck I want?

-Chris




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