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 np.take -

np.take(matrix,0)

Sample run -

In [15]: matrix = np.array([[67]])

In [16]: np.take(matrix,0)
Out[16]: 67

In [17]: type(np.take(matrix,0))
Out[17]: numpy.int64