Flatten 3-d numpy array

Question

How to flatten this:

b = np.array([
    [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]],
    [[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3]]
])

into:

c = np.array([
    [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9],
    [1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3]
])

Niether of these work:

c = np.apply_along_axis(np.ndarray.flatten, 0, b)
c = np.apply_along_axis(np.ndarray.flatten, 0, b)

Just returns the same array.

It would be great to flatten this in place.

Answer 1

This will do the job:

c=b.reshape(len(b),-1)

Then c is

array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
       [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]])

Answer 2

You can completely flatten and then reshape:

c = b.flatten().reshape(b.shape[0],b.shape[1]*b.shape[2])

Output

array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
       [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]])

Answer 3

So you could always just use reshape:

b.reshape((2,9)) 
array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
       [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]])