ak.to_regular¶

Defined in awkward.operations.structure on line 751.

ak.to_regular(array, axis=1, highlevel=True, behavior=None)¶

Parameters

array – Array to convert.
axis (int) – The dimension at which this operation is applied. The outermost dimension is 0, followed by 1, etc., and negative values count backward from the innermost: -1 is the innermost dimension, -2 is the next level up, etc.
highlevel (bool) – If True, return an ak.Array; otherwise, return a low-level ak.layout.Content subclass.
behavior (None or dict) – Custom ak.behavior for the output array, if high-level.

Converts a variable-length axis into a regular one, if possible.

>>> irregular = ak.from_iter(np.arange(2*3*5).reshape(2, 3, 5))
>>> ak.type(irregular)
2 * var * var * int64
>>> ak.type(ak.to_regular(irregular))
2 * 3 * var * int64
>>> ak.type(ak.to_regular(irregular, axis=2))
2 * var * 5 * int64
>>> ak.type(ak.to_regular(irregular, axis=-1))
2 * var * 5 * int64

But truly irregular data cannot be converted.

>>> ak.to_regular(ak.Array([[1, 2, 3], [], [4, 5]]))
ValueError: in ListOffsetArray64, cannot convert to RegularArray because
subarray lengths are not regular