Suppose I have the following array:
a = [[1, 4, 2, 3]
[3, 1, 5, 4]
[4, 3, 1, 2]]
What I'd like to do is impose a maximum value on the array, but have that maximum vary by row. For instance if I wanted to limit the 1st and 3rd row to a maximum value of 3, and the 2nd row to a value of 4, I could create something like:
[[1, 3, 2, 3]
[3, 1, 4, 4]
[3, 3, 1, 2]
Is there any better way than just looping over each row individually and setting it with 'nonzero'?
With numpy.clip (using the method version here):
a.clip(max=np.array([3, 4, 3])[:, None]) # np.clip(a, ...)
# array([[1, 3, 2, 3],
# [3, 1, 4, 4],
# [3, 3, 1, 2]])
Generalized:
def clip_2d_rows(a, maxs):
maxs = np.asanyarray(maxs)
if maxs.ndim == 1:
maxs = maxs[:, np.newaxis]
return np.clip(a, a_min=None, a_max=maxs)
You might be safer using the module-level function (np.clip) rather than the class method (np.ndarray.clip). The former uses a_max as a parameter, while the latter uses the builtin max as a parameter which is never a great idea.
max as a parameter which is never a great idea." What do you mean uses the builtin max as a parameter?
def func(klass=None)..With masking -
In [50]: row_lims = np.array([3,4,3])
In [51]: np.where(a > row_lims[:,None], row_lims[:,None], a)
Out[51]:
array([[1, 3, 2, 3],
[3, 1, 4, 4],
[3, 3, 1, 2]])
With
>>> a
array([[1, 4, 2, 3],
[3, 1, 5, 4],
[4, 3, 1, 2]])
Say you have
>>> maxs = np.array([[3],[4],[3]])
>>> maxs
array([[3],
[4],
[3]])
What about doing
>>> a.clip(max=maxs)
array([[1, 3, 2, 3],
[3, 1, 4, 4],
[3, 3, 1, 2]])
