Concatenating empty array in Numpy

Question

in Matlab I do this:

>> E = [];
>> A = [1 2 3 4 5; 10 20 30 40 50];
>> E = [E ; A]

E =

     1     2     3     4     5
    10    20    30    4         


        

Answer 1

if you know the number of columns before hand:

>>> xs = np.array([[1,2,3,4,5],[10,20,30,40,50]])
>>> ys = np.array([], dtype=np.int64).reshape(0,5)
>>> ys
array([], shape=(0, 5), dtype=int64)
>>> np.vstack([ys, xs])
array([[  1.,   2.,   3.,   4.,   5.],
       [ 10.,  20.,  30.,  40.,  50.]])

if not:

>>> ys = np.array([])
>>> ys = np.vstack([ys, xs]) if ys.size else xs
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5],
       [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]])