The method flatten() can be used to collapse a multidimensional array into an array with one dimension:
>>> x = np.array([[0.314, 0.5,17],[1.4142,0.67, 7]], float)
>>> x
array([[ 0.314 , 0.5 , 17. ],
[ 1.4142, 0.67 , 7. ]])
>>> y = x.flatten()
>>> y
array([ 0.314 , 0.5 , 17. , 1.4142, 0.67 , 7. ])