[Numpy-discussion] Re: Some missing linalg things (wanted: LU decomposition)

[Bill Baxter]

Should have mentioned -- I was using numpy 0.9.4 / scipy 0.4.4.
Looks like it works in numpy 0.9.5 / scipy 0.4.6

But matplotlib, which I also need, hasn't been updated for numpy 0.9.5 yet.
:-(

It's also still pretty weird to me that you have to do "from
scipy.linalgimport lu" specifically.  And then after doing that one
import, then all the
other scipy.linalg.* functions magically spring into existence too.  Is that
sort of hing expected behavior from Python imports?

>>> import numpy as N
>>> import scipy as S
>>> S.linalg.lu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lu'
>>> from scipy.linalg import lu
>>> S.linalg.lu(N.rand(2,2))
(array([[ 0.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  0.]]), array([[ 1.        ,  0.        ],
       [ 0.18553085,  1.        ]]), array([[ 0.71732168,  0.48540043],
       [ 0.        ,  0.61379118]]))
>>> (N.__version__, S.__version__)
('0.9.5', '0.4.6')

--bb

On 2/20/06, Nils Wagner <nwagner at mecha.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> > Ack.  I may be able to get references to lu, lu_factor, et al, but
> > they don't actually work with numpy arrays:
> >
> > from scipy.linalg import lu,lu_factor,lu_solve
> > import scipy as S
> > A = S.rand(2,2)
> > lu(A)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\scipy\linalg\decomp.py", line
> > 249, in lu
> >     flu, = get_flinalg_funcs(('lu',),(a1,))
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\scipy\linalg\flinalg.py", line
> > 30, in get_flinalg_funcs
> >     t = arrays[i].dtypechar
> > AttributeError: 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute 'dtypechar'
> >
> >
> > Ok, so, once again, does anyone have an lu_factor / lu_solve
> > implementation in python that I could borrow?
> >
> > Apologies for the monologue.
> >
> > --bb
> >
> >
> > On 2/20/06, *Bill Baxter* <wbaxter at gmail.com
> > <mailto:wbaxter at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Upon further inspection I find that if I call 'from scipy import
> >     *' then linalg.lu <http://linalg.lu> etc are defined.
> >     But if I do anything else to import scipy like 'import scipy' or
> >     'import scipy as S' or 'from scipy import linalg', then lu, cg etc
> >     are not defined.
> >
> >     Why is that?
> >
> >     I can get at them without importing * by doing 'from scipy.linalg
> >     import lu', but that's kind of odd to have to do that.
> >
> >     --bb
> >
> >
> >     On 2/20/06, * Bill Baxter* <wbaxter at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:wbaxter at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         This url http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/scipy_course_01.html
> >         <http://www.rexx.com/%7Edkuhlman/scipy_course_01.html> seems
> >         to keep turning up in my searches for numpy and scipy things,
> >         but many of the linalg operations it lists don't seem to exist
> >         in recent versions of numpy (or scipy).
> >
> >         Some of them are:
> >
> >         * norm
> >         * factorizations: lu, lu_factor, lu_solve, qr
> >         * iterative solvers: cg, cgs, gmres etc.
> >
> >         Did these things used to exist in Numeric but they haven't
> >         been ported over?  Will they be re-introduced sometime?
> >
> >         In the short term, the one I'm after right now is LU decompose
> >         and solve functionality.  Anyone have a numpy implementation?
> >
> >         --Bill Baxter
> >
> No problem here.
>
> >>> from scipy.linalg import lu,lu_factor,lu_solve
> >>> import scipy as S
> >>> A = S.rand(2,2)
> >>> lu(A)
> (array([[ 0.,  1.],
>        [ 1.,  0.]]), array([[ 1.        ,  0.        ],
>        [ 0.81367315,  1.        ]]), array([[ 0.49886054,  0.57065709],
>        [ 0.        , -0.30862809]]))
> >>> S.__version__
> '0.4.7.1614'
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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