This is a collection of exercises that have been collected in the numpy mailing list, on stack overflow and in the numpy documentation. The goal of this collection is to offer a quick reference for both old and new users but also to provide a set of exercices for those who teach.
#### 69. How to get the diagonal of a dot product? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Mathieu Blondel
A = np.random.uniform(0,1,(5,5))
B = np.random.uniform(0,1,(5,5))
# Slow version
np.diag(np.dot(A, B))
# Fast version
np.sum(A * B.T, axis=1)
# Faster version
np.einsum("ij,ji->i", A, B)
```
#### 70. Consider the vector \[1, 2, 3, 4, 5\], how to build a new vector with 3 consecutive zeros interleaved between each value? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Warren Weckesser
Z = np.array([1,2,3,4,5])
nz = 3
Z0 = np.zeros(len(Z) + (len(Z)-1)*(nz))
Z0[::nz+1] = Z
print(Z0)
```
#### 71. Consider an array of dimension (5,5,3), how to mulitply it by an array with dimensions (5,5)? (★★★)
```python
A = np.ones((5,5,3))
B = 2*np.ones((5,5))
print(A * B[:,:,None])
```
#### 72. How to swap two rows of an array? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Eelco Hoogendoorn
A = np.arange(25).reshape(5,5)
A[[0,1]] = A[[1,0]]
print(A)
```
#### 73. Consider a set of 10 triplets describing 10 triangles (with shared vertices), find the set of unique line segments composing all the triangles (★★★)
```python
# Author: Nicolas P. Rougier
faces = np.random.randint(0,100,(10,3))
F = np.roll(faces.repeat(2,axis=1),-1,axis=1)
F = F.reshape(len(F)*3,2)
F = np.sort(F,axis=1)
G = F.view( dtype=[('p0',F.dtype),('p1',F.dtype)] )
G = np.unique(G)
print(G)
```
#### 74. Given an array C that is a bincount, how to produce an array A such that np.bincount(A) == C? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Jaime Fernández del Río
C = np.bincount([1,1,2,3,4,4,6])
A = np.repeat(np.arange(len(C)), C)
print(A)
```
#### 75. How to compute averages using a sliding window over an array? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Jaime Fernández del Río
def moving_average(a, n=3) :
ret = np.cumsum(a, dtype=float)
ret[n:] = ret[n:] - ret[:-n]
return ret[n - 1:] / n
Z = np.arange(20)
print(moving_average(Z, n=3))
```
#### 76. Consider a one-dimensional array Z, build a two-dimensional array whose first row is (Z\[0\],Z\[1\],Z\[2\]) and each subsequent row is shifted by 1 (last row should be (Z\[-3\],Z\[-2\],Z\[-1\]) (★★★)
#### 77. How to negate a boolean, or to change the sign of a float inplace? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Nathaniel J. Smith
Z = np.random.randint(0,2,100)
np.logical_not(Z, out=Z)
Z = np.random.uniform(-1.0,1.0,100)
np.negative(Z, out=Z)
```
#### 78. Consider 2 sets of points P0,P1 describing lines (2d) and a point p, how to compute distance from p to each line i (P0\[i\],P1\[i\])? (★★★)
```python
def distance(P0, P1, p):
T = P1 - P0
L = (T**2).sum(axis=1)
U = -((P0[:,0]-p[...,0])*T[:,0] + (P0[:,1]-p[...,1])*T[:,1]) / L
U = U.reshape(len(U),1)
D = P0 + U*T - p
return np.sqrt((D**2).sum(axis=1))
P0 = np.random.uniform(-10,10,(10,2))
P1 = np.random.uniform(-10,10,(10,2))
p = np.random.uniform(-10,10,( 1,2))
print(distance(P0, P1, p))
```
#### 79. Consider 2 sets of points P0,P1 describing lines (2d) and a set of points P, how to compute distance from each point j (P\[j\]) to each line i (P0\[i\],P1\[i\])? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Italmassov Kuanysh
# based on distance function from previous question
P0 = np.random.uniform(-10, 10, (10,2))
P1 = np.random.uniform(-10,10,(10,2))
p = np.random.uniform(-10, 10, (10,2))
print(np.array([distance(P0,P1,p_i) for p_i in p]))
```
#### 80. Consider an arbitrary array, write a function that extract a subpart with a fixed shape and centered on a given element (pad with a `fill` value when necessary) (★★★)
r = [slice(start,stop) for start,stop in zip(R_start,R_stop)]
z = [slice(start,stop) for start,stop in zip(Z_start,Z_stop)]
R[r] = Z[z]
print(Z)
print(R)
```
#### 81. Consider an array Z = \[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14\], how to generate an array R = \[\[1,2,3,4\], \[2,3,4,5\], \[3,4,5,6\], ..., \[11,12,13,14\]\]? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Stefan van der Walt
Z = np.arange(1,15,dtype=np.uint32)
R = stride_tricks.as_strided(Z,(11,4),(4,4))
print(R)
```
#### 82. Compute a matrix rank (★★★)
```python
# Author: Stefan van der Walt
Z = np.random.uniform(0,1,(10,10))
U, S, V = np.linalg.svd(Z) # Singular Value Decomposition
rank = np.sum(S > 1e-10)
print(rank)
```
#### 83. How to find the most frequent value in an array?
```python
Z = np.random.randint(0,10,50)
print(np.bincount(Z).argmax())
```
#### 84. Extract all the contiguous 3x3 blocks from a random 10x10 matrix (★★★)
```python
# Author: Chris Barker
Z = np.random.randint(0,5,(10,10))
n = 3
i = 1 + (Z.shape[0]-3)
j = 1 + (Z.shape[1]-3)
C = stride_tricks.as_strided(Z, shape=(i, j, n, n), strides=Z.strides + Z.strides)
print(C)
```
#### 85. Create a 2D array subclass such that Z\[i,j\] == Z\[j,i\] (★★★)
```python
# Author: Eric O. Lebigot
# Note: only works for 2d array and value setting using indices
#### 86. Consider a set of p matrices wich shape (n,n) and a set of p vectors with shape (n,1). How to compute the sum of of the p matrix products at once? (result has shape (n,1)) (★★★)
```python
# Author: Stefan van der Walt
p, n = 10, 20
M = np.ones((p,n,n))
V = np.ones((p,n,1))
S = np.tensordot(M, V, axes=[[0, 2], [0, 1]])
print(S)
# It works, because:
# M is (p,n,n)
# V is (p,n,1)
# Thus, summing over the paired axes 0 and 0 (of M and V independently),
# and 2 and 1, to remain with a (n,1) vector.
```
#### 87. Consider a 16x16 array, how to get the block-sum (block size is 4x4)? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Robert Kern
Z = np.ones((16,16))
k = 4
S = np.add.reduceat(np.add.reduceat(Z, np.arange(0, Z.shape[0], k), axis=0),
np.arange(0, Z.shape[1], k), axis=1)
print(S)
```
#### 88. How to implement the Game of Life using numpy arrays? (★★★)
```python
# Author: Nicolas Rougier
def iterate(Z):
# Count neighbours
N = (Z[0:-2,0:-2] + Z[0:-2,1:-1] + Z[0:-2,2:] +
Z[1:-1,0:-2] + Z[1:-1,2:] +
Z[2: ,0:-2] + Z[2: ,1:-1] + Z[2: ,2:])
# Apply rules
birth = (N==3) & (Z[1:-1,1:-1]==0)
survive = ((N==2) | (N==3)) & (Z[1:-1,1:-1]==1)
Z[...] = 0
Z[1:-1,1:-1][birth | survive] = 1
return Z
Z = np.random.randint(0,2,(50,50))
for i in range(100): Z = iterate(Z)
print(Z)
```
#### 89. How to get the n largest values of an array (★★★)
```python
Z = np.arange(10000)
np.random.shuffle(Z)
n = 5
# Slow
print (Z[np.argsort(Z)[-n:]])
# Fast
print (Z[np.argpartition(-Z,n)[:n]])
```
#### 90. Given an arbitrary number of vectors, build the cartesian product (every combinations of every item) (★★★)
```python
# Author: Stefan Van der Walt
def cartesian(arrays):
arrays = [np.asarray(a) for a in arrays]
shape = (len(x) for x in arrays)
ix = np.indices(shape, dtype=int)
ix = ix.reshape(len(arrays), -1).T
for n, arr in enumerate(arrays):
ix[:, n] = arrays[n][ix[:, n]]
return ix
print (cartesian(([1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7])))
```
#### 91. How to create a record array from a regular array? (★★★)
```python
Z = np.array([("Hello", 2.5, 3),
("World", 3.6, 2)])
R = np.core.records.fromarrays(Z.T,
names='col1, col2, col3',
formats = 'S8, f8, i8')
print(R)
```
#### 92. Consider a large vector Z, compute Z to the power of 3 using 3 different methods (★★★)
```python
# Author: Ryan G.
x = np.random.rand(5e7)
%timeit np.power(x,3)
%timeit x*x*x
%timeit np.einsum('i,i,i->i',x,x,x)
```
#### 93. Consider two arrays A and B of shape (8,3) and (2,2). How to find rows of A that contain elements of each row of B regardless of the order of the elements in B? (★★★)
#### 99. Given an integer n and a 2D array X, select from X the rows which can be interpreted as draws from a multinomial distribution with n degrees, i.e., the rows which only contain integers and which sum to n. (★★★)
```python
# Author: Evgeni Burovski
X = np.asarray([[1.0, 0.0, 3.0, 8.0],
[2.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0],
[1.5, 2.5, 1.0, 0.0]])
n = 4
M = np.logical_and.reduce(np.mod(X, 1) == 0, axis=-1)
M &= (X.sum(axis=-1) == n)
print(X[M])
```
#### 100. Compute bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals for the mean of a 1D array X (i.e., resample the elements of an array with replacement N times, compute the mean of each sample, and then compute percentiles over the means). (★★★)