How to get a non-shuffled train_test_split in sklearn

Question

If I want a random train/test split, I use the sklearn helper function:

In [1]: from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split    ...: train_test_split([1,2,3,4,5,6])    ...: Out[1]: [[1, 6, 4, 2], [5, 3]] 

What is the most concise way to get a non-shuffled train/test split, i.e.

[[1,2,3,4], [5,6]] 

EDIT Currently I am using

train, test = data[:int(len(data) * 0.75)], data[int(len(data) * 0.75):]  

but hoping for something a little nicer. I have opened an issue on sklearn https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/8844

EDIT 2: My PR has been merged, in scikit-learn version 0.19, you can pass the parameter shuffle=False to train_test_split to obtain a non-shuffled split.

Answer 1

I'm not adding much to Psidom's answer except an easy to copy paste function:

def non_shuffling_train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2):     i = int((1 - test_size) * X.shape[0]) + 1     X_train, X_test = np.split(X, [i])     y_train, y_test = np.split(y, [i])     return X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test 

Update: At some point this feature became built in, so now you can do:

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, shuffle=False)