[Numpy-discussion] add axis to results of reduction (mean, min, ...)

[Pierre GM]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Keith Goodman wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:15, Keith Goodman<kwgoodman at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> thanksOn Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com 
>>> > wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:03, Keith Goodman<kwgoodman at gmail.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> pylab.demean??
>>>>> Type:           function
>>>>> Base Class:     <type 'function'>
>>>>> String Form:    <function demean at 0x3c5c050>
>>>>> Namespace:      Interactive
>>>>> File:           /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/ 
>>>>> mlab.py
>>>>> Definition:     pylab.demean(x, axis=0)
>>>>> Source:
>>>>> def demean(x, axis=0):
>>>>>    "Return x minus its mean along the specified axis"
>>>>>    x = np.asarray(x)
>>>>>    if axis:
>>>>>        ind = [slice(None)] * axis
>>>>>        ind.append(np.newaxis)
>>>>>        return x - x.mean(axis)[ind]
>>>>>    return x - x.mean(axis)

FYI, there's a "anom" method for MaskedArrays that does the same thing  
as demean (if you can't /don't want to import mpl)