[Numpy-discussion] How to find indices of values in an array (indirect in1d) ?

Nicolas P. Rougier Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr
Wed Dec 30 13:51:02 EST 2015


Unfortunately, this does not handle repeated entries in a.

> On 30 Dec 2015, at 19:40, Mark Miller <markperrymiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was not familiar with the .in1d function. That's pretty handy.
>  
> Yes...it looks like numpy.where(numpy.in1d(b, a)) does what you need.
>  
> >>> numpy.where(numpy.in1d(b, a))
> (array([1, 2, 5, 7], dtype=int64),)
> It would be interesting to see the benchmarks.
>  
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Nicolas P. Rougier <Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr> wrote:
> 
> Yes, it is the expected result. Thanks.
> Maybe the set(a) & set(b) can be replaced by np.where[np.in1d(a,b)], no ?
> 
> > On 30 Dec 2015, at 18:42, Mark Miller <markperrymiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not 100% sure that I get the question, but does this help at all?
> >
> > >>> a = numpy.array([3,2,8,7])
> > >>> b = numpy.array([1,3,2,4,5,7,6,8,9])
> > >>> c = set(a) & set(b)
> > >>> c #contains elements of a that are in b (and vice versa)
> > set([8, 2, 3, 7])
> > >>> indices = numpy.where([x in c for x in b])[0]
> > >>> indices #indices of b where the elements of a in b occur
> > array([1, 2, 5, 7], dtype=int64)
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Nicolas P. Rougier <Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr> wrote:
> >
> > I’m scratching my head around a small problem but I can’t find a vectorized solution.
> > I have 2 arrays A and B and I would like to get the indices (relative to B) of elements of A that are in B:
> >
> > >>> A = np.array([2,0,1,4])
> > >>> B = np.array([1,2,0])
> > >>> print (some_function(A,B))
> > [1,2,0]
> >
> > # A[0] == 2 is in B and 2 == B[1] -> 1
> > # A[1] == 0 is in B and 0 == B[2] -> 2
> > # A[2] == 1 is in B and 1 == B[0] -> 0
> >
> > Any idea ? I tried numpy.in1d with no luck.
> >
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
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