How to create a numpy array of arbitrary length strings?

Question

I\'m a complete rookie to Python, but it seems like a given string is able to be (effectively) arbitrary length. i.e. you can take a string str and keeping add

Answer 1

You could use the object data type:

>>> import numpy
>>> s = numpy.array(['a', 'b', 'dude'], dtype='object')
>>> s[0] += 'bcdef'
>>> s
array([abcdef, b, dude], dtype=object)