Re: [Numpy-discussion] Matlab page on scipy wiki

[Travis O. <oli...@ee...>]

Alan G Isaac wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Stefan van der Walt apparently wrote: 
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>>In Octave that would be 
>>[1, 0, 1:4, 0, 1] 
>>Using numpy we currently do 
>>concatenate([[1, 0], arange(1,5), [0, 1]]) or 
>>vstack(...) 
>>    
>>
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>numpy.r_[1,0,range(1,5),0,1]
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>

or even faster

numpy.r_[1,0,1:5,0,1]

The whole point of r_ is to allow you to use slice notation to build 
ranges easily.  I wrote it precisely to make it easier to construct 
arrays in a simliar style that Matlab allows. 

-Travis