On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:37:23PM +0200, Pau Gargallo wrote: > > Something's not quite right here. The argsort docstring states that: > > > > argsort(a,axis=-1) return the indices into a of the sorted array > > along the given axis, so that take(a,result,axis) is the sorted array. > > > > But > > > > N.take(A,A.argsort()) breaks. Either this is a bug, or the docstring > > needs to be updated. > > > > Cheers > > Stéfan > > > > I think the docstring is wrong, because take doesn't do that. > if you N.take(A,A.argsort(1), 1), it doesn't break but it doesn't sort > A neither. > > Take seems to peek entire columns, but take's docstring is missing. > > For the argsort docstring, it may be usefull to indicate that if one do > >>> ind = indices(A.shape) > >>> ind[ax] = A.argsort(axis=ax) > then A[ind] is the sorted array.
We can always adapt the documentation at http://numeric.scipy.org/numpydoc/numpy-9.html#pgfId-36425 into a docstring. I'll file a ticket. Cheers Stéfan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
