Numpy transpose of 1D array not giving expected result

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NumPy’s transpose() effectively reverses the shape of an array. If the array is one-dimensional, this means it has no effect.

In NumPy, the arrays

array([1, 2, 3])

and

array([1,
       2,
       3])

are actually the same – they only differ in whitespace. What you probably want are the corresponding two-dimensional arrays, for which transpose() would work fine. Also consider using NumPy’s matrix type:

In [1]: numpy.matrix([1, 2, 3])
Out[1]: matrix([[1, 2, 3]])

In [2]: numpy.matrix([1, 2, 3]).T
Out[2]: 
matrix([[1],
        [2],
        [3]])

Note that for most applications, the plain one-dimensional array would work fine as both a row or column vector, but when coming from Matlab, you might prefer using numpy.matrix.

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