[Numpy-discussion] ndarray.T2 for 2D transpose

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> On 7 April 2016 at 11:17, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > np.col_vector(arr)
> >
> > which would be a synonym for np.reshape(arr, (-1,1))
> >
> > would that make anyone happy?
>
> I'm curious to see use cases where this doesn't solve the problem.
>
> The most common operations that I run into:
>
> colvec = lambda x: np.c_[x]
>
> x = np.array([1, 2, 3])
> A = np.arange(9).reshape((3, 3))
>
>
> 1) x @ x   (equivalent to x @ colvec(x))
> 2) A @ x  (equivalent to A @ colvec(x), apart from the shape)
> 3) x @ A
> 4) x @ colvec(x)  -- gives an error, but perhaps this should work and
> be equivalent to np.dot(colvec(x), rowvec(x)) ?
>
> If (4) were changed, 1D arrays would mostly* be interpreted as row
> vectors, and there would be no need for a rowvec function.  And we
> already do that kind of magic for (2).
>

Apropos column/row vectors, I've toyed a bit with the idea of adding a flag
to numpy arrays to indicate that the last index is one or the other, and
maybe neither.

Chuck
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