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a = np.zeros((5,4,3))
v = np.ones((5, 4), dtype=int)
data = a[v]
shp = data.shape
This code gives shp==(5,4,4,3)
I don't understand why. How can a larger array be output? makes no sense to me and would love an explanation.
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In general numpy arrays can have more than one dimension. One way to create such array is to start with a 1-dimensional array and use the numpy reshape() function that rearranges elements of that array into a new shape.
Array indexing is the same as accessing an array element. You can access an array element by referring to its index number. The indexes in NumPy arrays start with 0, meaning that the first element has index 0, and the second has index 1 etc.
Slicing arrays Slicing in python means taking elements from one given index to another given index. We pass slice instead of index like this: [start:end] . We can also define the step, like this: [start:end:step] .
Fancy indexing is conceptually simple: it means passing an array of indices to access multiple array elements at once. For example, consider the following array: import numpy as np rand = np. random. RandomState(42) x = rand.
This is known as advanced indexing. Advanced indexing allows you to select arbitrary elements in the input array based on an N-dimensional index.
Let's use another example to make it clearer:
a = np.random.randint(1, 5, (5,4,3))
v = np.ones((5, 4), dtype=int)
Say in this case a is:
array([[[2, 1, 1],
[3, 4, 4],
[4, 3, 2],
[2, 2, 2]],
[[4, 4, 1],
[3, 3, 4],
[3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 1]],
[[3, 1, 3],
[4, 3, 1],
[2, 1, 4],
[1, 2, 2]],
...
By indexing with an array of np.ones:
print(v)
array([[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1]])
You will simply be indexing a with 1 along the first axis as many times as v. Putting it in another way, when you do:
a[1]
[[4, 4, 1],
[3, 3, 4],
[3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 1]]
You're indexing along the first axis, as no indexing is specified along the additional axes. It is the same as doing a[1, ...], i.e taking a full slice along the remaining axes. Hence by indexing with a 2D array of ones, you will have the above 2D array (5, 4) times stacked together, resulting in an ndarray of shape (5, 4, 4, 3). Or in other words, a[1], of shape (4,3), stacked 5*4=20 times.
Hence, in this case you'd be getting:
array([[[[4, 4, 1],
[3, 3, 4],
[3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 1]],
[[4, 4, 1],
[3, 3, 4],
[3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 1]],
...
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