Introducing NumPy, Half 3: Manipulating Arrays | by Lee Vaughan | Sep, 2024
Shaping, transposing, becoming a member of, and splitting arrays
Welcome to Half 3 of Introducing NumPy, a primer for these new to this important Python library. Part 1 launched NumPy arrays and easy methods to create them. Part 2 coated indexing and slicing arrays. Half 3 will present you easy methods to manipulate present arrays by reshaping them, swapping their axes, and merging and splitting them. These duties are useful for jobs like rotating, enlarging, and translating photographs and becoming machine studying fashions.
NumPy comes with strategies to alter the form of arrays, transpose arrays (invert columns with rows), and swap axes. You’ve already been working with the reshape() technique on this collection.
One factor to concentrate on with reshape() is that, like all NumPy assignments, it creates a view of an array somewhat than a copy. Within the following instance, reshaping the arr1d array produces solely a brief change to the array:
In [1]: import numpy as npIn [2]: arr1d = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4])
In [3]: arr1d.reshape(2, 2)
Out[3]:
array([[1, 2],
[3, 4]])
In [4]: arr1d
Out[4]: array([1, 2, 3, 4])
This habits is helpful whenever you wish to briefly change the form of the array to be used in a…
