Converting a 3D List to a 3D NumPy array

Question

Currently, I have a 3D Python list in jagged array format.
A = [[[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]], [[0], [0], [0]]]

Is there any way I could convert

Answer 1

The answers by @SonderingNarcissit and @MadPhysicist are already quite nice.

Here is a quick way of adding a number to each element in your list and keeping the structure. You can replace the function return_number by anything you like, if you want to not only add a number but do something else with it:

def return_number(my_number):
    return my_number + 4    

def add_number(my_list):

    if isinstance(my_list, (int, float)):
        return return_number(my_list)
    else:
        return [add_number(xi) for xi in my_list]

A = [[[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]], [[0], [0], [0]]]

Then

print(add_number(A))

gives you the desired output:

[[[4, 4, 4], [4, 4, 4], [4, 4, 4]], [[4], [4], [4]]]

So what it does is that it look recursively through your list of lists and everytime it finds a number it adds the value 4; this should work for arbitrarily deep nested lists. That currently only works for numbers and lists; if you also have e.g. also dictionaries in your lists then you would have to add another if-clause.