How to “scale” a numpy array?

Question

I would like to scale an array of shape (h, w) by a factor of n, resulting in an array of shape (h*n, w*n), with the.

Say that I have a 2x2 array:

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Answer 1

You could use repeat:

In [6]: a.repeat(2,axis=0).repeat(2,axis=1)
Out[6]: 
array([[1, 1, 1, 1],
       [1, 1, 1, 1],
       [0, 0, 1, 1],
       [0, 0, 1, 1]])

I am not sure if there's a neat way to combine the two operations into one.