[Numpy-discussion] put with increment ?

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:28, Jon Wright <wright at esrf.fr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Is there a 'numpy' efficient way to do the following loop:
>
> for i, v in indices, values:
>     total[ i ] += v
>
>
> The behaviour is like numpy.put, but instead of overwriting the array
> element, it is incremented. Currently I have a little C extension which
> does the job, but I'm lazy to fix it up for all the various dtypes etc.
> Am I missing a more general way?

total = np.bincount(indices, values)

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Robert Kern

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