Robert Kern wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > Is there a way to handle numeric (or numarray or numpy) arrays as sets > > and compute efficiently their intersection, union, etc. ? I hope there > > is a faster way than s = array(set(A) & set(B)). Can this be done with > > masked arrays maybe ? I've never used them though and browsing through > > the docs didn't make clear if it is possible. > > You'll probably want to ask such questions on the numpy list: > > http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists > > Robert Cimrman has implemented a number of set operations based on sorting. > > http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk/Lib/sandbox/arraysetops/arraysetops.py
Thank you so much, these fit the bill perfectly ! George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list