diff --git a/paddle/fluid/pybind/eager_utils.cc b/paddle/fluid/pybind/eager_utils.cc
index bd7194198e565673b7f91a2af783eb17982bbd83..c0167a19e2b8c78d5d88a2d6578126e02a151de7 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/pybind/eager_utils.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/pybind/eager_utils.cc
@@ -1100,7 +1100,8 @@ paddle::experimental::IntArray CastPyArg2IntArray(PyObject* obj,
   // obj could be: int, float, bool, paddle.Tensor
   PyTypeObject* type = obj->ob_type;
   auto type_name = std::string(type->tp_name);
-  if (type_name == "list" || type_name == "tuple") {
+  if (type_name == "list" || type_name == "tuple" ||
+      type_name == "numpy.ndarray") {
     std::vector<int> value = CastPyArg2Ints(obj, op_type, arg_pos);
     return paddle::experimental::IntArray(value);
 
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_expand_v2_op.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_expand_v2_op.py
index 592a635ddcccc587cba766e00525fc9c8f3c6639..4932ea8a1b5c96a61b613e54cfe4c457aa93076f 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_expand_v2_op.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_expand_v2_op.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from op_test import OpTest
 import paddle.fluid as fluid
 from paddle.fluid import compiler, Program, program_guard
 import paddle
+from paddle.fluid.framework import _test_eager_guard
 
 
 # Situation 1: shape is a list(without tensor)
@@ -243,6 +244,30 @@ class TestExpandInferShape(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertListEqual(list(out.shape), [-1, -1, -1])
 
 
+# Test python Dygraph API 
+class TestExpandV2DygraphAPI(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_expand_times_is_tensor(self):
+        with paddle.fluid.dygraph.guard():
+            with _test_eager_guard():
+                paddle.seed(1)
+                a = paddle.rand([2, 5])
+                egr_expand_1 = paddle.expand(a, shape=[2, 5])
+                np_array = np.array([2, 5])
+                egr_expand_2 = paddle.expand(a, shape=np_array)
+
+            paddle.seed(1)
+            a = paddle.rand([2, 5])
+            expand_1 = paddle.expand(a, shape=[2, 5])
+            np_array = np.array([2, 5])
+            expand_2 = paddle.expand(a, shape=np_array)
+
+            self.assertTrue(
+                np.array_equal(egr_expand_1.numpy(), egr_expand_2.numpy()))
+            self.assertTrue(np.array_equal(expand_1.numpy(), expand_2.numpy()))
+            self.assertTrue(
+                np.array_equal(expand_1.numpy(), egr_expand_1.numpy()))
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     paddle.enable_static()
     unittest.main()