How to convert singleton array to a scalar value in Python?

Question

Suppose I have 1x1x1x1x... array and wish to convert it to scalar?

How do I do it?

squeeze does not help.

import numpy as np

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Answer 1

You can index with the empty tuple after squeezing:

x = np.array([[[1]]])
s = np.squeeze(x)  # or s = x.reshape(())
val = s[()]
print val, type(val)