The problem that stack functions don't work, is that they need that the row added is of the same size of the already present rows. Using np.array([[]]), the first row is has a length of zero, which means that you can only add rows that also have length zero.

In order to solve this, we need to tell Numpy that the first row is of size two and not zero. The array thus needs to be of size (0, 2) and not (0, 0). This can be done using one of the array-initializing functions that accept size arguments, like empty, zeros or ones. Which function does not matter, as there are no spaces to fill.

Then you can use one of the functions mentioned in comments, like vstack or stack. The code thus becomes:

import numpy as np
all_coordinates = np.zeros((0, 2))

for y in range(2):
    for x in range(2):
        coordinate = np.array([[x,y]])

        # append
        all_coordinates = np.vstack((all_coordinates, coordinate))

print(all_coordinates)
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Just so you know: A numpy array is not made to be appended to like a list is. In the background of np.append an entire new array has to be created, so it's expensive (slow). It's much better to use lists if you need to append data. More on reddit.com
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If you can pre-estimate the final size of the array, allocate it with that size using numpy.empty and then fill it without using append. If you can't predict the final size, append to plain old lists and when you have all the data in one list, then create the numpy array. When you append to a numpy array you end up copying all of the data into a new array so it is expensive for large arrays. More on reddit.com
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It's not a problem, numpy arrays just default to being floats, even if the values you're populating them with are ints. If you have a specific reason to want the values to be stored as ints you can change the data type of the array, but you probably don't have to. See here: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/basics.types.html More on reddit.com
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February 14, 2019 -

I'm trying to find out how to append a list to a Numpy array.

So I have a list of lists that I then convert into a Numpy array. I then want to append a list to that array.

So let's say I have

list = [[a,b,c],[b,c,d],[a,d,b]]

I first do:

list = np.array(list)

... (code that does calculations on that numpy array)

I then want to append:

list2 = [c,b,a]

to list.

I've tried np.index as well as np.append, however both of them give me the following output:

list = list = [[a,b,c],[b,c,d],[a,d,b,c,b,a]]

when I want:

list = [[a,b,c],[b,c,d],[a,d,b],[c,b,a]]

If this is too convoluted let me know, I can try explain it better.

I appreciate the help.

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The axis along which the arrays will be joined. If axis is None, arrays are flattened before use.
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October 31, 2021 -

https://paste.ofcode.org/zpT6HK22LuswbXhTHZfUK6

I am working on a starter project which involves storing pixel coordinates for various "territories" (dictionaries) on a map. Because there are a huge amount of coordinates (33 million pixels), I have been trying to optimize the program so it uses less memory. I have been using numpy's int16 type and ndarray to save memory. The problem I am getting however, is with adding pixels to territories. Each territory (dictionary) has a "pixels" key with an array as a value, and to add pixels to that array I use the following method:

def addPixel(territory, pixel):
    pixels = getProperty(territory, "pixels")
    territory["pixels"] = numpy.append(pixels, pixel)

This method, however, appears to be very slow, and it would take a huge amount of time to iterate over millions of pixels. Does anyone know of a faster way the append items to ndarrays?

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If you can pre-estimate the final size of the array, allocate it with that size using numpy.empty and then fill it without using append. If you can't predict the final size, append to plain old lists and when you have all the data in one list, then create the numpy array. When you append to a numpy array you end up copying all of the data into a new array so it is expensive for large arrays.
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Numpy arrays are poorly suited to appending because they’re fixed-length, and doing an append operation copies the entire array to a new array with one more spot, and then puts the new thing in that spot. If your main operation is appending then you’re likely better off with standard Python lists, or alternatively you can implement your own appending algorithm that does larger resizes (e.g. double each time) and separately keep track of how many elements have been put into each territory so that you only need to resize when you run out of space again. More generally, it’s not clear what you’re actually doing here. It sounds like you’re using a sparse array type approach where you only store individual position coordinates, but if you’re in charge of managing the whole map maybe you’re better off just having a single map array that keeps track of which territory ‘owns’ each pixel? Note that numpy is optimised for vectorised operations that apply to a large portion of an array at the same time. If you find yourself looping through a numpy array there’s probably something that could be handled better with vectorised operations, and if not it’s possible a numpy array is the wrong data structure to use :-)
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