[Numpy-discussion] Question regarding concatenate/vstack.

[gary ruben]

You're right, they are not equivalent. vstack will happily create an
array of higher rank than the parts it is stacking, whereas
concatenate requires the arrays it is working with to already be at
least 2d, so the equivalent is
np.concatenate((np.arange(5.)[newaxis],np.arange(5.)[newaxis]), axis=0)
or
np.concatenate((np.atleast_2d(np.arange(5.)),np.atleast_2d(np.arange(5.))),
axis=0)

Gary R.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:30 PM, andrew nelson <andyfaff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
> I have a quick question regarding vstack and concatenate.
> In the docs for vstack it says that:
>
> np.concatenate(tup, axis=0)
>
> should be equivalent to:
>
> np.vstack(tup)
>
> However, I tried this out and it doesn't seem to be case, i.e.
>
>>>> np.vstack((np.arange(5.), np.arange(5.)))
> array([[ 0.,  1.,  2.,  3.,  4.],
>       [ 0.,  1.,  2.,  3.,  4.]])
>
>>>> np.concatenate((np.arange(5.),np.arange(5.)), axis=0)
> array([ 0.,  1.,  2.,  3.,  4.,  0.,  1.,  2.,  3.,  4.])
>
> These aren't the same. Maybe I'm missing something?
>
> regards,
> Andrew.
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