[Numpy-discussion] Reading and Comparing Two Files

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Friedrich Romstedt
<friedrichromstedt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/2/28 Robert Love <rblove_lists at comcast.net>:
>> What is the efficient numpy way to compare data from two different files?  For the nth line in each file I want to operate on the numbers.   I've been using loadtxt()
>>
>> data_5x5 = N.loadtxt("file5")
>>
>> data_8x8 = N.loadtxt("file8")
>>
>> for line in data_5x5:
>>        pos5 = N.array([line[0], line[1],  line[2]])

If you just want to compare row by row when you already have the
arrays, you can just use numpy, e.g. based on first 3 columns:

(data_8x8[:,:3] == data_5x5[:,:3]).all(1)

but from your question it's not clear to me what you actually want to compare

Josef

>
> I believe there are several ways of doing that, and mine might not be
> the most efficient at all:
>
> for line5, line8 in zip(data_5x5, data_8x8):
>    # line5 and line8 are row vectors of paired lines
>    pass
>
> complete = numpy.hstack(data_5x5, data_8x8)  # If data_5x5.shape[0] ==
> data_8x8.shape[0], i.e., same number of rows.
> for line in complete:
>    # complete is comprised of concatenated row vectors.
>    pass
>
> for idx in xrange(0, min(data_5x5.shape[0], data_8x8.shape[0])):
>    line5 = data_5x5[idx]
>    line8 = data_8x8[idx]
>    # Do sth with the vectors. Or:
>    a1 = data_5x5[idx, (0, 1, 2)]  # Extract items 0, 1, 2 of line idx
> of first file.
>    a2 = data_8x8[idx, (0, 42)]   # Extract items 0, 42 of line idx of
> second file.
>
> ...
>
> Friedrich
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