I have two numpy arrays:

```
A = np.array([1, 3, 5, 7])
B = np.array([2, 4, 6, 8])

```

and I want to get the following from combining the two:

```
C = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

```

I'm able to get something close by using `zip`, but not quite what I'm looking for:

```
>>> zip(A, B)
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8)]

```

How do I combine the two numpy arrays element wise?

---

I did a quick test of 50,000 elements in each array (100,000 combined elements). Here are the results:

```
User Ma3x:      Time of execution: 0.0343832323429      Valid Array?:  True
User mishik:    Time of execution: 0.0439064509613      Valid Array?:  True
User Jaime:     Time of execution: 0.02767023558        Valid Array?:  True

```

Tested using Python 2.7, Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, Intel Core i7 2720QM @2.2 Ghz Sandy Bridge, 8 GB Mem