[Numpy-discussion] Is this expected behavior?

[Russel Howe]

Oh, of course.  I can reverse it myself.  Thanks, I did not think of that.

Russel

Warren Weckesser wrote:
> Russel Howe wrote:
>> Since they are iterators, is it possible to check for the second 
>> condition and reverse both of them so the behavior I expect happens or 
>> does this  break something else?
>>   
> 
> You may already know this, but just in case...
> 
> In the second case, you can accomplish the shift by using reversed slices:
> 
> a[:, -1:0:-1] = a[:, -2::-1]
> 
> 
> Warren
> 
>> Russel
>> Robert Kern wrote:
>>   
>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 13:41, Russel Howe <russel at appliedminds.com> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> This looks like the difference between memmove and memcpy to me, but I
>>>> am not sure what the expected behavior of numpy should be.  The first
>>>> shift behaves the way I expect, the second is surprising.
>>>>       
>>> memmove() and memcpy() are not used for these operations (and in
>>> general, they can't be). Rather, iterators are created and looped over
>>> to do the assignments. Because you are not making copies on the
>>> right-hand-side, you are modifying the RHS as the iterators assign to
>>> the LHS.
>>>
>>>     
>>>> In [3]: a[:, :-1] = a[:, 1:]
>>>>
>>>> In [4]: a
>>>> Out[4]:
>>>> array([[0, 5, 4, 8, 2, 7, 8, 7, 6, 6],
>>>>        [6, 3, 3, 9, 8, 0, 8, 9, 5, 5],
>>>>        [0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 8, 2, 5, 3, 3],
>>>>        [0, 0, 2, 8, 2, 0, 7, 7, 0, 0],
>>>>        [8, 6, 9, 6, 3, 9, 4, 4, 5, 5],
>>>>        [7, 6, 9, 3, 8, 9, 9, 6, 9, 9],
>>>>        [8, 8, 4, 0, 3, 7, 6, 7, 6, 6],
>>>>        [4, 9, 2, 4, 7, 3, 6, 7, 4, 4],
>>>>        [2, 0, 7, 0, 7, 6, 6, 1, 6, 6],
>>>>        [3, 8, 8, 9, 6, 7, 2, 5, 0, 0]], dtype=uint8)
>>>>       
>>> The first one works because the RHS pointer is always one step ahead
>>> of the LHS pointer, thus it always reads pristine data.
>>>
>>>     
>>>> In [5]: a[:, 1:] = a[:, :-1]
>>>>
>>>> In [6]: a
>>>> Out[6]:
>>>> array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
>>>>        [6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
>>>>        [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
>>>>        [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
>>>>        [8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8],
>>>>        [7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7],
>>>>        [8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8],
>>>>        [4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4],
>>>>        [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2],
>>>>        [3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]], dtype=uint8)
>>>>       
>>> The second one fails to work as you expect because the RHS pointer is
>>> always one step behind the LHS pointer, thus it always reads the data
>>> that just got modified in the previous step. The data you expected it
>>> to read has already been wiped out.
>>>
>>>     
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