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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

4.5 (13)
By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Intended to anyone interested in numerical computing and data science: students, researchers, teachers, engineers, analysts, hobbyists... Basic knowledge of Python/NumPy is recommended. Some skills in mathematics will help you understand the theory behind the computational methods.
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Index

Using stride tricks with NumPy


In this recipe, we will dig deeper into the internals of NumPy arrays, by generalizing the notion of row-major and column-major orders to multidimensional arrays. The general notion is that of strides, which describe how the items of a multidimensional array are organized within a one-dimensional data buffer. Strides are mostly an implementation detail, but they can also be used in specific situations to optimize some algorithms.

Getting ready

We suppose that NumPy has been imported and that the id function has been defined (see the previous recipe, Understanding the internals of NumPy to avoid unnecessary array copying).

How to do it...

  1. Strides are integer numbers describing the byte step in the contiguous block of memory for each dimension.

    In [3]: x = np.zeros(10); x.strides
    Out[3]: (8,)

    This vector x contains double-precision floating point numbers (float64, 8 bytes); one needs to go 8 bytes forward to go from one item to the next.

  2. Now, let's look at the strides...

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