Goal: Transform a array that has N number of nested lists, into a 1D array using Python3.
Example Array: ND_array = [1, [2, 3], [4, [5, 6]], 7, [8, 9, [10, 11, 12, [13, [14, 15, 16], 17], 18], 19, 20], 21]
Transform the example array into the following result: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]
A optimal solution that is not restricted on the number of dimensional the original array possess.
>Solution :
A simple and easy solution that works on any N-Dimensional array in python would be to utilize recursion.
oneD_array = []
def transform_array(arr):
for x in arr:
if type(x) == list:
transform_array(x)
else:
oneD_array.append(x)
return oneD_array
ND_array = [1, [2, 3], [4, [5, 6]], 7, [8, 9, [10, 11, 12, [13, [14, 15, 16], 17], 18], 19, 20], 21]
print(transform_array(ND_array))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]