Numpy array
Rob Gaddi
rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid
Mon May 21 13:13:36 EDT 2018
On 05/18/2018 09:50 PM, Sharan Basappa wrote:
> This is regarding numpy array. I am a bit confused how parts of the array are being accessed in the example below.
>
> 1 import scipy as sp
> 2 data = sp.genfromtxt("web_traffic.tsv", delimiter="\t")
> 3 print(data[:10])
> 4 x = data[:,0]
> 5 y = data[:,1]
>
> Apparently, line 3 prints the first 10 entries in the array
> line 4 & 5 is to extract all rows but only 1st and second columns alone for x and y respectively.
>
> I am confused as to how data[:10] gives the first 10 rows while data[:,0] gives all rows
>
Numpy ordering is [rows,columns,...]. Things you don't provide an
explicit answer for are assumed to be "all", which in Python syntax is
":". The reason for THAT goes into how slices are constructed.
So your example 3 could also be written print(data[0:10,:]), which sets
rows to the range starting with 0 and ending before 10, and columns to
everything.
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