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

Numpy has a function explicitly for this purpose: asscalar

>>> np.asscalar(np.array([24]))
24

This uses item() in the implementation.

I guess asscalar was added to more explicit about what's going on.