Re: [Numpy-discussion] ndarray.count() ?

[Charles R H. <cha...@gm...>]

On 9/7/06, Martin Spacek <sc...@ms...> wrote:
>
> What's the most straightforward way to count, say, the number of 1s or
> Trues in the array? Or the number of any integer?




I was surprised to discover recently that there isn't a count() method
> as there is for Python lists. Sorry if this has been discussed already,
> but I'm wondering if there's a reason for its absence.


I don't know about count, but you can gin up something like this

In [78]: a = ran.randint(0,2, size=(10,))

In [79]: a
Out[79]: array([0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1])

In [80]: b = sort(a)

In [81]: b.searchsorted(1, side='right') - b.searchsorted(1, side='left')
Out[81]: 6


Which counts the number of ones in a.

I came across a thread in March:
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/numpy-discussion/3066460
>
> that talked a bit about this in terms of speed, but what about just the
> convenience of having a count() method?
>
> Looks like masked arrays have a count method, don't know much about them
> though.
>
> Also, I understand the inaccuracies when converting between binary and
> decimal floating point representations, and therefore making counting of
> a specific float value in an array somewhat undefined, yet it seems to
> work in Python lists:
>
> >>> 1.1
> 1.1000000000000001
> >>> a=[1.1, 1.1, 1.2]
> >>> a
> [1.1000000000000001, 1.1000000000000001, 1.2]
> >>> a.count(1.1)
> 2
> >>> a.count(1.1000000000000001)
> 2
> >>> a.count(1.2)
> 1


Well, 1.1 == 1.1000000000000001 and that doesn't change. You probably need
to use different precisions to run into problems.

Chuck