Converting a 2D numpy array to a structured array

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You can “create a record array from a (flat) list of arrays” using numpy.core.records.fromarrays as follows:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> myarray = np.array([("Hello",2.5,3),("World",3.6,2)])
>>> print myarray
[['Hello' '2.5' '3']
 ['World' '3.6' '2']]


>>> newrecarray = np.core.records.fromarrays(myarray.transpose(), 
                                             names="col1, col2, col3",
                                             formats="S8, f8, i8")

>>> print newrecarray
[('Hello', 2.5, 3) ('World', 3.5999999046325684, 2)]

I was trying to do something similar. I found that when numpy created a structured array from an existing 2D array (using np.core.records.fromarrays), it considered each column (instead of each row) in the 2-D array as a record. So you have to transpose it. This behavior of numpy does not seem very intuitive, but perhaps there is a good reason for it.

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