ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence. The requested array has an inhomogeneous shape

在使用np.asarray()或np.asanyarray()时报这个错，是因为要array化的对象“在第一维后具有不均匀的形状”，比如下面这样：

import numpy as np


li = [[1, 2], [3, 4, 5]]
arr = np.asarray(li)

# ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence. The requested array has an inhomogeneous shape after 1 dimensions. The detected shape was (2,) + inhomogeneous part.

有的numpy版本不报错而是警告： 

VisibleDeprecationWarning: Creating an ndarray from ragged nested sequences (which is a list-or-tuple of lists-or-tuples-or ndarrays with different lengths or shapes) is deprecated. If you meant to do this, you must specify 'dtype=object' when creating the ndarray.

根据提示，加上 dtype=object 就不会再报错或警告：

import numpy as np


li = [[1, 2], [3, 4, 5]]
arr = np.asarray(li, dtype=object)        # [list([1, 2]) list([3, 4, 5])]

 解决。（如果本意需要转换的是均匀数据，就找找数据的问题）

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我是在np.save()时遇到的这个情况，np.save()需要传入arr : array_like，我传入的是如上一个第一维后不均匀的list，在np.save()内部有arr = np.asanyarray(arr)，为了不改变内置函数，可以选择在外部将list转为np.ndarray，再传入该np.ndarray，比如：

import numpy as np


path = './mydata.txt'
li = [[1, 2], [3, 4, 5]]
# np.save(path, li)
arr = np.asarray(li, dtype = object)
np.save(path, arr)