[Numpy-discussion] Getting the indexes of the myarray.min()

[Tim Hochberg]

Álvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am new to numarray. I have been searching the documentation, and see
>no evident vectorial and concise way to get the indexes for the minimum
>of an array times.min().
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If I understand your question correctly, you want argmin:

 >>> import numarray as na
 >>> from numarray import random_array
 >>> times = random_array.randint(0, 16, [4,4])
 >>> times
array([[15,  3, 11, 10],
       [ 1,  1, 15,  7],
       [ 4,  3,  5,  6],
       [10, 15, 12,  3]])
 >>> na.argmin(times)    # Takes min along axis 0
array([1, 1, 2, 3])
 >>> na.argmin(times, 1) # Take min along axis 1
array([1, 1, 1, 3])

-tim

>Currently my two alternatives are: (times is NxN array)
>
>husband, wife = nonzero(equal(times.min(),times)) 
>#gives tuple of 1x1 arrays, each containing one index
>
>and (even uglier)
>
>husband = compress(times.min()==times,indices([N,N])[0])
>wife    = compress(times.min()==times,indices([N,N])[1])
>
>These are weird ways to get something as simple. I am surely missing
>something, but I have tried several slicing strategies before without
>success.
>
>For getting the minimum times in each row I use:
>
>choose(argmin(times),transpose(times))
>
>What are the idioms in numpy for these tasks?
>
>
>Thank you very much in advance, á.
>
>I would 
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