TG wrote: > Okay, another one which I don't have answer for. > > it is the reverse case, sort of : > >> phi.shape (x,y) >> d.shape (a,b) > > I want to return m : >> m.shape = (x,y,a,b) > with > m[x,y] = d * phi[x,y] > > currently, my code is : >> m = empty(phi.shape + d.shape) >> m[:,:] = d > > this repeats the matrix d x*y times, which is what I want. But now, if > I do : >> m[:,:] = d * phi[:,:] > in order to multiply each "d" by a specific value of "phi", it doesn't > work. > > <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: shape mismatch: objects cannot be > broadcast to a single shape > > Right now I'm stuck here. If anyone can help, I would be glad.
Use broadcasting to get the desired behavior. It's a widely used feature of numpy that takes some getting used to, but it is quite powerful. Here is some documentation: http://www.scipy.org/EricsBroadcastingDoc It still references Numeric, numpy's predecessor, but the concepts are still valid. Use the numpy.newaxis object to add new axes to phi and d in the right places, then multiply them together: In [8]: from numpy import arange, newaxis In [9]: phi = arange(5*4).reshape((5,4)) In [10]: phi.shape Out[10]: (5, 4) In [11]: d = arange(3*2).reshape((3,2)) In [12]: d.shape Out[12]: (3, 2) In [13]: m = phi[:,:,newaxis,newaxis] * d[newaxis,newaxis,:,:] In [14]: m.shape Out[14]: (5, 4, 3, 2) In [17]: m[1, 2] Out[17]: array([[ 0, 6], [12, 18], [24, 30]]) In [18]: d * phi[1, 2] Out[18]: array([[ 0, 6], [12, 18], [24, 30]]) In [19]: for i in range(phi.shape[0]): ....: for j in range(phi.shape[1]): ....: assert (m[i,j] == d*phi[i,j]).all() ....: ....: In [20]: -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list