Re: [Numpy-discussion] Dimension reduction

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

David Huard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an elegant way to reduce an array but conserve the reduced 
> dimension ?
> 
> Currently,
>  >>> a = random.random((10,10,10))
>  >>> a.sum(1).shape
> (10,10)
> 
> but i'd like to keep (10,1,10) so I can do a/a.sum(1) directly.

def nonreducing_reducer(reducing_func, arr, axis):
     reduced = reducing_func(arr, axis=axis)
     shape = list(reduced.shape)
     axis = axis % len(arr.shape)
     shape.insert(axis, 1)
     reduced.shape = tuple(shape)
     return reduced


I think.

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Robert Kern

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