[Numpy-discussion] repmat equivalent

[Alex L. <ale...@gm...>]

I am also mostly Matlab user and I like repmat() a lot. I just
realized that in SciPy, i am confused about NumPy/SciPy, but it is
possible in both :-)) it is much, much easier. Just use r_[a,a] and
c_[a,a] and you get a concatination like repmat() does. if you need
'm' times row concatenation of matrix, you can use (sorry for the ugly
way, Pythoners):
eval('r_['+m*'a,'+']')

then, the repmat is just: (qute, isn't it)

def repmat(a,m,n):
    from scipy import r_, c_
    a =3D eval('r_['+m*'a,'+']')
    return eval('c_['+n*'a,'+']')

the test is:

>>> from scipy import *
numerix Numeric 24.2
>>> a =3D array([[0,1],[2,3]])
>>> a
array([[0, 1],
       [2, 3]])
>>> repmat(a,2,3)
array([[0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1],
       [2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3],
       [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1],
       [2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3]])

Best,
Alex Liberzon <ale...@gm...>