How to make List from Numpy Matrix in Python [duplicate]

May not be the optimal way to do this but the following works:

a = numpy.matrix([[ 0.16666667, 0.66666667, 0.16666667]])
list(numpy.array(a).reshape(-1,))

or

numpy.array(a).reshape(-1,).tolist()

or

numpy.array(a)[0].tolist()