[SciPy-user] element-by-element max of two arrays?

[Travis Oliphant]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> There's got to be a simple way to do this, but I can't find it. 
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> How do I get an element-by-element max or min of two arrays?
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> For two NxM arrays A and B, I want an NxM array C where
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>    C[i,j] == max(A[i,j],B[i,j])
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> I had thought maybe max(A,B) would work, but it doesn't.
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>   

C = numpy.maximum(A,B)