How to add an extra column to a NumPy array

Question

Let’s say I have a NumPy array, a:

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

And I would like to add a column of ze

Answer 1

np.insert also serves the purpose.

matA = np.array([[1,2,3], 
                 [2,3,4]])
idx = 3
new_col = np.array([0, 0])
np.insert(matA, idx, new_col, axis=1)

array([[1, 2, 3, 0],
       [2, 3, 4, 0]])

It inserts values, here new_col, before a given index, here idx along one axis. In other words, the newly inserted values will occupy the idx column and move what were originally there at and after idx backward.