Re: [Numpy-discussion] Indices of min/max element of an array?

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

Why not:

ind = where(arr == arr.max())

and use the first element of the index array(s)

Perry Greenfield

On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Christos Siopis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if i'm missing a numpy/numarray function that would 
> return the
> indices of the minimum/maximum element of an array. Argmin/max can 
> only do this
> one axis at a time. Alternatively, one can find the index for the 
> flattened array
> and then play with modulo arithmetic, which gets quickly annoying for 
> > 2
> dimensions. Since this is a rather frequent operation, i would think 
> there's
> already a function for it?...
>
> Thanks,
> Christos
>
>
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