[SciPy-user] Re: vectorize(function)/arraymap did not return arrays?

[Travis Oliphant]

Yichun Wei wrote:

> Hi Travis,
>
> I find someone suggesting this:
>
> for x in range( (imax-1 * jmax-1)-1 ):
>     i, j = x / jmax, x % jmax
>     array[i,j] = ...
>
>
> However, this does not look elegant. It would be great to be able to 
> loop through arrays, mapping functions returning arrays in C. I guess 
> it is too difficult to have a such a general mapping function. Thank 
> you anyway. Do you know of any method which can speed up the nested 
> loops?
>
Well, I don't know how difficult it would be to write such a general 
looping function --- I never tried to do it.   It was not on my radar 
when I wrote arraymap.

-Travis