For a readonly version, broadcast_to can be used:
In [370]: x = np.arange(9).reshape(3,3)
In [371]: x
Out[371]:
array([[0, 1, 2],
[3, 4, 5],
[6, 7, 8]])
In [372]: x = np.broadcast_to(x[..., None],(3,3,10))
In [373]: x
Out[373]:
array([[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]],
[[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3],
[4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4],
[5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5]],
[[6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
[7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7],
[8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8]]])
Or with repeat:
In [378]: x=np.repeat(x[...,None],10,2)
In [379]: x
Out[379]:
array([[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]],
[[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3],
[4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4],
[5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5]],
[[6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
[7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7],
[8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8]]])
This is a larger array, whose elements can be changed individually.
