Re: [Numpy-discussion] array from list of lists

[Charles R H. <cha...@gm...>]

On 11/12/06, Erin Sheldon <eri...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
> I think map(tuple, list) is probably the most compact,
> but the list comprehension also works well.
>
> Because map() is proably going to disappear someday, I'll
> stick with the list comprehension.
>   array( [tuple(row) for row in result], dtype=dtype)
>
> That said, is there some compelling reason that the array
> function doesn't support this operation?


My understanding is that the array needs to be allocated up front. Since the
list comprehension is iterative it is impossible to know how big the result
is going to be.

BTW, it might be possible to use fromfile('name', dtype=dtype) to do what
you want if the data is stored by rows in a file.

Chuck