[Numpy-discussion] help on fast slicing on a grid

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:52, frank wang <f.yw at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have to buidl a grid with 256 point by the command:
> a = arange(-15,16,2)
> L = len(a)
> cnstl = a.reshape(L,1)+1j*a
>
> My problem is that I have a big data array that contains the data round the
> points in cnstl. I want to slice the point to the closest cnstl point and
> also compute the error. The condition is in the middle of the two point in x
> and y axis. I can do it in a for loop. Since Python and numpy have a lot of
> magic, I want to find an efficient way to do. This problem arise from QAM
> 256 modulation.

Can you show us the for loop? I'm not really sure what you want to compute.

-- 
Robert Kern

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