Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread Neil Crighton
gmail.com> writes: > > Good point. With the return_inverse solution, is unique() guaranteed > > to give back the same array of unique values in the same (presumably > > sorted) order? That is, for two arrays A and B which have elements > > only drawn from a set S, is all(unique(A) == unique(B))

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread josef . pktd
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: > Thanks Alan and Robert, I probably should have mentioned that I was > interested in obtaining the corresponding integer for each value in > the array d, in which case the dictionary bit works but would require > a further loop to expand.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread David Warde-Farley
Thanks Alan and Robert, I probably should have mentioned that I was interested in obtaining the corresponding integer for each value in the array d, in which case the dictionary bit works but would require a further loop to expand. On 4-Nov-09, at 3:22 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > I'd toss in a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 14:21, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On 11/4/2009 3:09 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: >> I'd like to map every unique element (these could be strings, objects, >> or already ints) to a unique integer between 0 and len(unique(d)) - 1. > > mymap = dict((k,v) for v,k in enumerate(set(a)

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 4-Nov-09, at 3:09 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: > But I wonder if there's a better way to do this. Anyone ever run into > this problem before? Obviously I find the answer right after I hit "send". unique(d, return_inverse=True). Sorry for the noise. David __

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 11/4/2009 3:09 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: > I'd like to map every unique element (these could be strings, objects, > or already ints) to a unique integer between 0 and len(unique(d)) - 1. mymap = dict((k,v) for v,k in enumerate(set(a))) fwiw, Alan Isaac

[Numpy-discussion] converting discrete data to unique integers

2009-11-04 Thread David Warde-Farley
Hi, Suppose I have an array 'd' In [75]: d Out[75]: array(['parrot', 'parrot', 'dog', 'cat', 'parrot', 'dog', 'parrot', 'cat', 'dog', 'dog', 'dog', 'cat', 'cat', 'dog', 'cat', 'parrot', 'cat', 'cat', 'dog', 'parrot', 'parrot', 'parrot', 'cat', 'dog', 'parrot', 'dog',