Vectorization and Numeric (Newbie)

[Cyril Bazin]

Are you looking for the "map" function?

>>> def f(x): return x+4
>>> map(f, [1,2,3,3,70])
[5, 6, 7, 7, 74]

Cyril

On 2/28/06, Ronny Mandal <ronnyma at math.uio.no> wrote:
>
> Assume you have a mathematical function, e.g. f(x) = x + 4
>
> To calculate all the values from 1 to n, a loop is one alternative.
>
> But to make this function work with vectors instead i.e
> f(x_vector) = result_vector,
> how should the function then be implemented?
>
> Thanks
>
> RM
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