1D numpy array to float

Question

I want to convert a 1D numpy array to a simple float (no array). How is that done? Here is my current code with the variable 'acc'.

print type(acc)
print acc.shape

>>> <type 'numpy.ndarray'>
>>> (1,)

Mathias711 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-19 11:01:54Z

6

Can't you just do:

float(acc)

To make it a float? Seems to be working here:

a = np.array([1])
print a.shape
print type(a)
print float(a)

yields

(1,)
<type 'numpy.ndarray'>
1.0

answered Mar 19, 2015 at 11:01

Mathias711

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There are situations where this doesn't work. Like mine...