How to convert singleton array to a scalar value in Python?

Question

Suppose I have 1x1x1x1x... array and wish to convert it to scalar?

How do I do it?

squeeze does not help.

import numpy as np

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Answer 1

You can use the item() function:

import numpy as np

matrix = np.array([[[[7]]]])
print(matrix.item())

Output

7