On Feb 5, 2008 11:33 AM, Francesc Altet <faltet@carabos.com> wrote:

Hi,

I need to generate a series of uint8 integers similar to:

In [37]: numpy.linspace(10, 20, num=25).astype('uint8') Out[37]: array([10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20], dtype=uint8)

i.e. create evenly spaced samples in a range, but without using an intermediate array to create it (memory footprint is important).

I know that I can create this with a loop, but I'm curious if that can be done more compactly in one single sentence.

Thanks,

Could a "dtype" argument be added to linspace() -- there are many similar functions. (I remember for example fromfunction() ) -Sebastian