From cdf8b6953310ee8aeec4b68385e8fa30ed51ce5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim O'Donnell <timodonnell@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:42:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix

---
 mhcflurry/allele_encoding.py | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mhcflurry/allele_encoding.py b/mhcflurry/allele_encoding.py
index 46ab3d8c..fb33f487 100644
--- a/mhcflurry/allele_encoding.py
+++ b/mhcflurry/allele_encoding.py
@@ -54,13 +54,9 @@ class AlleleEncoding(object):
 
         Returns
         -------
-        list of numpy arrays. Pass it to numpy.array to get an array with shape
+        numpy.array to get an array with shape
         (num sequences, sequence length, m) where m is
         vector_encoding_length(vector_encoding_name)
-
-        The reason to return a list instead of an array is that the list can
-        use much less memory in the common case where many of the rows are
-        the same.
         """
         cache_key = (
             "fixed_length_vector_encoding",
@@ -87,7 +83,7 @@ class AlleleEncoding(object):
             else:
                 # Raw values
                 vector_encoded = allele_to_fixed_length_sequence.values
-            result = [vector_encoded[i] for i in indices]
+            result = numpy.array([vector_encoded[i] for i in indices])
             self.encoding_cache[cache_key] = result
         return self.encoding_cache[cache_key]
 
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