numpy fromiter with generator of list

Question

import numpy as np
def gen_c():
    c = np.ones(5, dtype=int)
    j = 0
    t = 10
    while j < t:
        c[0] = j
        yield c.tolist()
        j += 1 

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Answer 1

You can only use numpy.fromiter() to create 1-dimensional arrays (not 2-D arrays) as given in the documentation of numpy.fromiter -

numpy.fromiter(iterable, dtype, count=-1)

Create a new 1-dimensional array from an iterable object.

One thing you can do is convert your generator function to give out single values from c and then create a 1D array from it and then reshape it to (-1,5) . Example -

import numpy as np
def gen_c():
    c = np.ones(5, dtype=int)
    j = 0
    t = 10
    while j < t:
        c[0] = j
        for i in c:
            yield i
        j += 1

np.fromiter(gen_c(),dtype=int).reshape((-1,5))

Demo -

In [5]: %paste
import numpy as np
def gen_c():
    c = np.ones(5, dtype=int)
    j = 0
    t = 10
    while j < t:
        c[0] = j
        for i in c:
            yield i
        j += 1

np.fromiter(gen_c(),dtype=int).reshape((-1,5))

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Out[5]:
array([[0, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [2, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [3, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [4, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [5, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [6, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [7, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [8, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [9, 1, 1, 1, 1]])