How to add an extra column to a NumPy array

Question

Let’s say I have a NumPy array, a:

a = np.array([
    [1, 2, 3],
    [2, 3, 4]
    ])

And I would like to add a column of ze

Answer 1

Assuming M is a (100,3) ndarray and y is a (100,) ndarray append can be used as follows:

M=numpy.append(M,y[:,None],1)

The trick is to use

y[:, None]

This converts y to a (100, 1) 2D array.

M.shape

now gives

(100, 4)