[Numpy-discussion] Simple way to shift array elements

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a simpler way to get "c" from "a"
>
> I[1]: a = np.arange(10)
>
> I[2]: b = a[3:]
>
> I[3]: b
> O[3]: array([3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
>
> I[4]: c = np.insert(b, [7]*3, 0)
> O[5]: array([3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 0, 0])
>
> a and c have to be same in length and the left shift must be balanced with
> equal number of 0's
>
>
Maybe something like

In [1]: a = np.arange(10)

In [2]: b = zeros_like(a)

In [3]: b[:-3] = a[3:]

In [4]: b
Out[4]: array([3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 0, 0])

Chuck
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