[SciPy-user] addressing 1d array

[Roger Herikstad]

Hi Ross,
 I've come across the same problem myself, and I found
numpy.atleast_1d to be handy. At the very least, it saves me one extra
line of code : )

~ Roger

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Ross Williamson
<Ross.Williamson at usap.gov> wrote:
> Hi Roger
>
> Thanks
>
> At the moment I check the length with
>
> if data.size == 1:
>    data = data.reshape(1,)
>
> Which works so I shouldn't complain too much :) Just thought there might
> be a more obvious way of doing it
>
> Ross
>
> Roger Herikstad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  You could take a look at numpy.atleast_1d.
>>
>> ~ Roger
>>
>> ~ Roger
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Ross Williamson
>> <Ross.Williamson at usap.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> I'm currently writing some code where I read in a data file - Generally
>>> there are > 1 entry and I check certain parameters for example
>>>
>>> if data[0]['date'] == something:
>>>
>>> Which is fine until I get a single element and the above gives:
>>>
>>> '0-d arrays cannot be indexed'
>>>
>>> which makes sense , however, is there any easy way of just using the
>>> above code without having to check each time to see if it is only a
>>> single element - i.e. transparent (similar to idl) and just assumes that
>>> data[0] is the only element if there is only one in there.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ross
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