Numarray: Using sum() within functions
Jim Cser
jimcser at pacifier.com
Sat Aug 14 17:07:30 EDT 2004
Hello-
I have a function to generate a multi-dimensional array, which then
gets summed over one axis. The problem is that the dimensions
are large, and I run out of memory when I create the entire array,
so I'm trying to do the sum *within* the function.
Example-- variables x,y,z,t; dimensions numX, numY, numZ, numT;
functions f1(x,y,z,t), f2(y,z,t); want to calculate f1*f2 and
sum over t to get out[x,y,z].
With loops, I could do it like--
out = zeros((numX,numY,numZ))
for x in range(numX):
for y in range(numY):
for z in range(numZ):
for t in range(numT):
tempval = f1(x,y,z,t) * f2(y,z,t)
out[x,y,z] = out[x,y,z] + tempval
With numarray, if I had enough memory, I could just do--
temp1 = fromfunction(f1,(numX,numY,numZ,numT))
temp2 = resize(fromfunction(f2,(numY,numZ,numT)),(numX,numY,numZ,numT))
out = sum(temp1 * temp2, axis = 3)
Instead, I'm trying to do something like--
def f3(x,y,z):
for t in range(numT):
tempval = f1(x,y,z,t) * f2(y,z,t)
outval = sum(tempval,axis = 3)
return outval
out = fromfunction(f3,(numX,numY,numZ))
I've been trying various slicing and indexing, but I can't seem to
get that *extra* dimension within the 3-D function. I've scoured the
documentation and list archives, but haven't found exactly what I need.
Any suggestions? Am I stuck with generating the entire 4-D array?
Thanks in advance,
Jim Cser
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