I have what seems to be an easy question.
Observe the code:
In : x=np.array([0, 6])
Out: array([0, 6])
In : x.shape
Out: (2L,)
Which shows that the array has no second dimension, and therefore x is no differnet from x.T.
How can I make x have dimension (2L,1L)? The real motivation for this question is that I have an array y of shape [3L,4L], and I want y.sum(1) to be a vector that can be transposed, etc.
While you can reshape arrays, and add dimensions with [:,np.newaxis], you should be familiar with the most basic nested brackets, or list, notation. Note how it matches the display.
In [230]: np.array([[0],[6]])
Out[230]:
array([[0],
[6]])
In [231]: _.shape
Out[231]: (2, 1)
np.array also takes a ndmin parameter, though it add extra dimensions at the start (the default location for numpy.)
In [232]: np.array([0,6],ndmin=2)
Out[232]: array([[0, 6]])
In [233]: _.shape
Out[233]: (1, 2)
A classic way of making something 2d - reshape:
In [234]: y=np.arange(12).reshape(3,4)
In [235]: y
Out[235]:
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3],
[ 4, 5, 6, 7],
[ 8, 9, 10, 11]])
sum (and related functions) has a keepdims parameter. Read the docs.
In [236]: y.sum(axis=1,keepdims=True)
Out[236]:
array([[ 6],
[22],
[38]])
In [237]: _.shape
Out[237]: (3, 1)
empty 2nd dimension isn't quite the terminology. More like a nonexistent 2nd dimension.
A dimension can have 0 terms:
In [238]: np.ones((2,0))
Out[238]: array([], shape=(2, 0), dtype=float64)
If you are more familiar with MATLAB, which has a minimum of 2d, you might like the np.matrix subclass. It takes steps to ensure that most operations return another 2d matrix:
In [247]: ym=np.matrix(y)
In [248]: ym.sum(axis=1)
Out[248]:
matrix([[ 6],
[22],
[38]])
The matrix sum does:
np.ndarray.sum(self, axis, dtype, out, keepdims=True)._collapse(axis)
The _collapse bit lets it return a scalar for ym.sum().
np.matrix class.
There is another point to keep dimension info:
In [42]: X
Out[42]:
array([[0, 0],
[0, 1],
[1, 0],
[1, 1]])
In [43]: X[1].shape
Out[43]: (2,)
In [44]: X[1:2].shape
Out[44]: (1, 2)
In [45]: X[1]
Out[45]: array([0, 1])
In [46]: X[1:2] # this way will keep dimension
Out[46]: array([[0, 1]])
reshape()method or you can also add an extra dimension.