[SciPy-User] Rerranging an array

[Christopher Barker]

On 11/9/10 12:27 PM, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote:
> another array with the following setup
> [ id_number, observation]. The id_number refer to the first array, and
> indicates the position where observation goes.

Is there a structure to that array? Are the id_numbers in order? if so, 
then you may be able to simply re-shape it.

If not, then maybe something like:
(see "fancy indexing")

 >>> a2 = np.array(((3,45),(2,15),(4,65)))
 >>> a2
array([[ 3, 45],
        [ 2, 15],
        [ 4, 65]])

# an empty 2-d array:
 >>> a = np.zeros((3,4))

# reshape it to 1-d
 >>> a.shape = ((-1,))

# assign the values by id_number
 >>> a[a2[:,0]] = a2[:,1]

# make it 2-d again
 >>> a.shape = (3,4)

 >>> a
array([[  0.,   0.,  15.,  45.],
        [ 65.,   0.,   0.,   0.],
        [  0.,   0.,   0.,   0.]])

- Chris



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