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How do I get an empty array of any size in python?

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How do you declare an empty array in Python?

The second way to declare an empty array in Python is by creating a list and multiplying it by the number(length of the array) to create an empty array. This will create an empty array of size 4. print(myarr) will result in the following output. Additionally, we can create an empty array using NumPy.

How do you create an empty array?

To create an empty array, you can use an array initializer. The length of the array is equal to the number of items enclosed within the braces of the array initializer. Java allows an empty array initializer, in which case the array is said to be empty.

How do you ask for an empty array?

To check if an array is null, use equal to operator and check if array is equal to the value null. In the following example, we will initialize an integer array with null. And then use equal to comparison operator in an If Else statement to check if array is null. The array is empty.

How do you declare an empty list of size N in Python?

To create a list of n placeholder elements, multiply the list of a single placeholder element with n . For example, use [None] * 5 to create a list [None, None, None, None, None] with five elements None .


If by "array" you actually mean a Python list, you can use

a = [0] * 10

or

a = [None] * 10

You can't do exactly what you want in Python (if I read you correctly). You need to put values in for each element of the list (or as you called it, array).

But, try this:

a = [0 for x in range(N)]  # N = size of list you want
a[i] = 5  # as long as i < N, you're okay

For lists of other types, use something besides 0. None is often a good choice as well.


You can use numpy:

import numpy as np

Example from Empty Array:

np.empty([2, 2])
array([[ -9.74499359e+001,   6.69583040e-309],
       [  2.13182611e-314,   3.06959433e-309]])  

also you can extend that with extend method of list.

a= []
a.extend([None]*10)
a.extend([None]*20)

Just declare the list and append each element. For ex:

a = []
a.append('first item')
a.append('second item')

If you (or other searchers of this question) were actually interested in creating a contiguous array to fill with integers, consider bytearray and memoryivew:

# cast() is available starting Python 3.3
size = 10**6 
ints = memoryview(bytearray(size)).cast('i') 

ints.contiguous, ints.itemsize, ints.shape
# (True, 4, (250000,))

ints[0]
# 0

ints[0] = 16
ints[0]
# 16

x=[]
for i in range(0,5):
    x.append(i)
    print(x[i])