[Numpy-discussion] How-to: Uniform vector scale

[Christopher Barker]

Robert Dailey wrote:
> The 
> interpreter outputs:
>     "ValueError: shape mismatch: objects cannot be broadcast to a single 
> shape"

You need to post your actually input and output. The above works fine 
for me, just as you'd expect:

 >>> A = N.array([2,3,4])
 >>> B = N.array([5,6,7])
 >>> S = 5
 >>> A+B*S
array([27, 33, 39])

# I like to be explicit about order of operations, though:
 >>> A+(B*S)
array([27, 33, 39])

-Chris


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