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Sidney
Sidney

Reputation: 91

check if two vectors are equal python

I have one vector called cm which does not change

cm = np.array([[99,99,0]])

and another vector called pt. that I want to loop through certain values. but when the two are equal, I want it skip over and not perform the operation. for the sake of this post I just said to have it print out the value of pt, but I actually have a whole host of operations to run. here is my code

for i in range (95,103): 
    for j in range (95,103):
        pt = np.array([[i,j,0]])
        if pt == cm:
            continue
        print pt

i have tried changing the 4th line to 

if pt.all == cm.all

but that prints everything, including the one I want to skip and then if i turn it into 

if pt.all() == cm.all()

that also doesn't work. what is the difference between those two anyway?

does anyone know how i can fix it so that when pt = [99,99,0] it will skip the operations and go back to the beginning of the loop? Thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 12697

Answers (1)

DSM
DSM

Reputation: 353019

You're probably looking for (pt == cm).all(), although if floats are involved np.allclose(pt, cm) is probably a better idea in case you have numerical errors.

(1) pt.all == cm.all

This checks to see whether the two methods are equal:

>>> pt.all
<built-in method all of numpy.ndarray object at 0x16cbbe0>
>>> pt.all == cm.all
False

(2) pt.all() == cm.all()

This checks to see see whether the result of all matches in each case. For example:

>>> pt
array([[99, 99,  0]])
>>> pt.all()
False
>>> cm = np.array([10, 10, 0])
>>> cm.all()
False
>>> pt.all() == cm.all()
True

(3) (pt == cm).all()

This creates an array testing to see whether the two are equal, and returns whether the result is all True:

>>> pt
array([[99, 99,  0]])
>>> cm
array([[99, 99,  0]])
>>> pt == cm
array([[ True,  True,  True]], dtype=bool)
>>> (pt == cm).all()
True

One downside is that this constructs a temporary array, but often that's not an issue in practice.

Aside: when you're writing nested loops with numpy arrays you've usually made a mistake somewhere. Python-level loops are slow, and so you lose a lot of the benefits you get from using numpy in the first place. But that's a separate issue.

Upvotes: 6

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