Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: matplotlib.mlab.find() not quite like Matlab's

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

Hi Jouni,

Jouni K Sepp=E4nen wrote:

>On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:08:59 +0200, Jouni K Sepp=E4nen
><jou...@gm...> wrote:
> =20
>
>>Here's what I'm using to emulate Matlab's find; it only seems to work
>>with Numeric, not numarray
>>   =20
>>
>
>Oops - actually it seems that after
>
>from matplotlib.numerix import ravel, indices, compress
>
>the function works whether numerix is using numarray or Numeric.
>
>Making a special case of single-dimensional inputs is not very
>elegant, but doing otherwise would break compatibility with the
>existing mlab.find; and I guess there is no way in Python of emulating
>Matlab's detection of the number of output arguments.
> =20
>

I looked at this a while back, and came to the same conclusion. Thats an=20
interesting question, can Python determine the number of output=20
arguments? I dont know of a convenient function call, but it seems like=20
that information must exist somewhere. I'll ask at c.l.p.

Darren