Concatenating empty array in Numpy

if you know the number of columns before hand:

>>> xs = np.array([[1,2,3,4,5],[10,20,30,40,50]])
>>> ys = np.array([], dtype=np.int64).reshape(0,5)
>>> ys
array([], shape=(0, 5), dtype=int64)
>>> np.vstack([ys, xs])
array([[  1.,   2.,   3.,   4.,   5.],
       [ 10.,  20.,  30.,  40.,  50.]])

if not:

>>> ys = np.array([])
>>> ys = np.vstack([ys, xs]) if ys.size else xs
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5],
       [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]])

If you wanna do this just because you cannot concatenate an array with an initialized empty array in a loop, then just use a conditional statement, e.g.

if (i == 0): 
   do the first assignment
else:  
   start your contactenate