How to flatten a numpy array of dtype object

Question

I'm taking ndarray slices with different length and I want my result to be flat. For example:

a = np.array(((np.array((1,2)), np.array((1,2,3))), (np.array((1,2)), np.array((1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)))))

Is there any straight way to make this array flat by using numpy functionalities (without loop)?

Answer 1

You could try flattening it and then using hstack, which stacks the array in sequence horizontally.

>>> a = np.array(((np.array((1,2)), np.array((1,2,3))), (np.array((1,2)), np.array((1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)))))
>>> np.hstack(a.flatten())
array([1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8])