Today’s daily pitfall celebrates array copying. In a previous post, we talked about copying lists. If you’re using a numpy array (ndarray), however, the correct way to do it is using numpy’s convenient copy function.
import numpy as np new_ndarray = np.copy(old_ndarray)
If you try using standard list copying methods – it won’t work, but Python won’t throw an exception, either. Took 30 minutes of algorithm debugging mixed in with a healthy dose of profanity before I tracked down the problem.
new_ndarray = old_ndarray[:] # please don't do this
Filed under: python | Tagged: copy, ndarray, numpy, python |
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