[Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of variable

[Sudheer Joseph]

Tank you,
It worked fine,
with best regards,
Sudheer

From: Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com>

To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion at scipy.org> 
>Sent: Sunday, 18 August 2013 3:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of variable
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>Try:
>np.argsort(a)[-n:]
>-n
>On 18 Aug 2013 10:10, "Sudheer Joseph" <sudheer.joseph at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>
>> 
>>However, I was looking for the indices of the biggest 3 numbers which can be used to find corresponding values in another vector, which made me to write the function. Is there a smarter way for getting indices?
>>with best regards,
>>Sudheer
>>Thanks a lot Eric,
>>
>>                    Here comes the smartness of python!!, I am just climbing the bottom steps...
>>>with best regards,
>>>Sudheer
>>>
>>>
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>>>> From: Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu>
>>>>To: numpy-discussion at scipy.org 
>>>>Sent: Sunday, 18 August 2013 1:57 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of variable
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>>>>
>>>>On 2013/08/17 9:49 PM, Sudheer Joseph wrote:
>>>>>
 Hi,
>>>>>           I have defined a small function to find the n maximum values
>>>>> of an array as below. With in it I assign the input array to a second
>>>>> array and temporarily make the array location after first iteration as
>>>>> nan. I expected this temporary change to be limited to the second
>>>>> variable. However my initial variable gets modified. Can any one through
>>>>> some light to what is happening here?. In case of matlab this logic works.
>>>>>
>>>>> ######
>>>>> #FUNCTION maxn
>>>>> ######
>>>>> import numpy as np
>>>>> def max_n(a,n):
>>>>>       b=a
>>>>
>>>>This is not making "b" a copy of "a", it is simply making it an alias 
>>>>for it.  To make it a copy you could use "b = a[:]", or "b = a.copy()"
>>>>
>>>>It sounds like you don't really need a function, however.  Try this:
>>>>
>>>># test data:
>>>>a = np.random.randn(10)
>>>>n = 2
>>>>
>>>># One-line
 solution:
>>>>biggest_n = np.sort(a)[-n:]
>>>>
>>>>print a
>>>>print biggest_n
>>>>
>>>>If you want them ordered from largest to smallest, just reverse the list:
>>>>
>>>>biggest_n = biggest_n[::-1]
>>>>
>>>>Eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>       result=[]
>>>>>       for i in np.arange(1,n+1):
>>>>>           mxidx=np.where(b==max(b))
>>>>>           result.append(mxidx)
>>>>>           b[mxidx]=np.nan
>>>>>       result=np.ravel(result)
>>>>>       return(result)
>>>>>
>>>>> ### TEST
>>>>> In [8]: x=np.arange(float(0),10)
>>>>>
>>>>> In [9]: max
>>>>> max    max_n
>>>>>
>>>>> In [9]: max_n(x,2)
>>>>> Out[9]: array([9, 8])
>>>>>
>>>>> In [10]: x
>>>>> Out[10]: array([  0.,   1.,   2.,   3.,   4.,   5.,   6.,   7.,  nan,  nan])
>>>>>
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