On Thursday, July 12, 2012, Chao YUE wrote:
Thanks all for the discussion. Actually I am trying to use something like numpy ndarray indexing in the function. Like when I call:
func(a,'1:3,:,2:4'), it knows I want to retrieve a[1:3,:,2:4], and func(a,'1:3,:,4') for a[1:3,:,4] ect.
I am very close now.
#so this function changes the string to list of slice objects.
def convert_string_to_slice(slice_string):
"""
provide slice_string as '2:3,:', it will return [slice(2, 3, None), slice(None, None, None)]
"""
slice_list=[]
split_slice_string_list=slice_string.split(',')
for sub_slice_string in split_slice_string_list:
split_sub=sub_slice_string.split(':')
if len(split_sub)==1:
sub_slice=slice(int(split_sub[0]))
else:
if split_sub[0]=='':
sub1=None
else:
sub1=int(split_sub[0])
if split_sub[1]=='':
sub2=None
else:
sub2=int(split_sub[1])
sub_slice=slice(sub1,sub2)
slice_list.append(sub_slice)
return slice_list
In [119]: a=np.arange(3*4*5).reshape(3,4,5)
for this it works fine.
In [120]: convert_string_to_slice('1:3,:,2:4')
Out[120]: [slice(1, 3, None), slice(None, None, None), slice(2, 4, None)]
In [121]: a[slice(1, 3, None), slice(None, None, None), slice(2, 4, None)]==a[1:3,:,2:4]
Out[121]:
array([[[ True, True],
[ True, True],
[ True, True],
[ True, True]],
[[ True, True],
[ True, True],
[ True, True],
[ True, True]]], dtype=bool)
And problems happens when I want to retrieve a single number along a given dimension:
because it treats 1:3,:,4 as 1:3,:,:4, as shown below:
In [122]: convert_string_to_slice('1:3,:,4')
Out[122]: [slice(1, 3, None), slice(None, None, None), slice(None, 4, None)]
In [123]: a[1:3,:,4]
Out[123]:
array([[24, 29, 34, 39],
[44, 49, 54, 59]])
In [124]: a[slice(1, 3, None), slice(None, None, None), slice(None, 4, None)]
Out[124]:
array([[[20, 21, 22, 23],
[25, 26, 27, 28],
[30, 31, 32, 33],
[35, 36, 37, 38]],
[[40, 41, 42, 43],
[45, 46, 47, 48],
[50, 51, 52, 53],
[55, 56, 57, 58]]])
Then I have a function:
#this function retrieves data from ndarray a by specifying slice_string:
def retrieve_data(a,slice_string):
slice_list=convert_string_to_slice(slice_string)
return a[*slice_list]
In the list line of the fuction "retrieve_data" I have problem, I get an invalid syntax error.
return a[*slice_list]
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I hope it's not too long, please comment as you like. Thanks a lot!!!!
Chao
I won't comment on the wisdom of your approach, but for you very last part, don't try unpacking the slice list. Also, I think it has to be a tuple, but I could be wrong on that.
Ben Root