I had the same issue, and I couldn't comment on @Sven Marnach answer (not enough rep, gosh I remember when Stackoverflow first started...) anyway.
Adding a list of random numbers to a 10 X 10 matrix.
myNpArray = np.zeros([1, 10])
for x in range(1,11,1):
randomList = [list(np.random.randint(99, size=10))]
myNpArray = np.vstack((myNpArray, randomList))
myNpArray = myNpArray[1:]
Using np.zeros() an array is created with 1 x 10 zeros.
array([[0., 0., 0., 0., 0., 0., 0., 0., 0., 0.]])
Then a list of 10 random numbers is created using np.random and assigned to randomList.
The loop stacks it 10 high. We just have to remember to remove the first empty entry.
myNpArray
array([[31., 10., 19., 78., 95., 58., 3., 47., 30., 56.],
[51., 97., 5., 80., 28., 76., 92., 50., 22., 93.],
[64., 79., 7., 12., 68., 13., 59., 96., 32., 34.],
[44., 22., 46., 56., 73., 42., 62., 4., 62., 83.],
[91., 28., 54., 69., 60., 95., 5., 13., 60., 88.],
[71., 90., 76., 53., 13., 53., 31., 3., 96., 57.],
[33., 87., 81., 7., 53., 46., 5., 8., 20., 71.],
[46., 71., 14., 66., 68., 65., 68., 32., 9., 30.],
[ 1., 35., 96., 92., 72., 52., 88., 86., 94., 88.],
[13., 36., 43., 45., 90., 17., 38., 1., 41., 33.]])
So in a function:
def array_matrix(random_range, array_size):
myNpArray = np.zeros([1, array_size])
for x in range(1, array_size + 1, 1):
randomList = [list(np.random.randint(random_range, size=array_size))]
myNpArray = np.vstack((myNpArray, randomList))
return myNpArray[1:]
a 7 x 7 array using random numbers 0 - 1000
array_matrix(1000, 7)
array([[621., 377., 931., 180., 964., 885., 723.],
[298., 382., 148., 952., 430., 333., 956.],
[398., 596., 732., 422., 656., 348., 470.],
[735., 251., 314., 182., 966., 261., 523.],
[373., 616., 389., 90., 884., 957., 826.],
[587., 963., 66., 154., 111., 529., 945.],
[950., 413., 539., 860., 634., 195., 915.]])