Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser <at> enthought.com> writes: > > Benjamin Root wrote: > > Brad, I think you are doing it the right way, but I think what is > > happening is that the reshape() call on the sliced array is forcing a > > copy to be made first. The fact that the copy has to be made twice > > just worsens the issue. I would save a copy of the reshape result (it > > is usually a view of the original data, unless a copy is forced), and > > then perform a min/max call on that with the appropriate axis. > > > > On that note, would it be a bad idea to have a function that returns a > > min/max tuple? > > +1. More than once I've wanted exactly such a function. >
I also think this would be useful. For what it's worth, IDL also has a function called minmax() that does this (e.g. http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/software/idl/astrolib/misc/minmax.html) Neil _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion