Dear All,

Today my friend asked me to change the numpy array’s columns into rows and rows into columns.

Then I searched in numpy documents and I got this simple way to do that.

>>>import numpy
>>>data = numpy.arange(100).reshape((10,10))

>>>data
array([[ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
[10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
[20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29],
[30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39],
[40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49],
[50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59],
[60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69],
[70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79],
[80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89],
[90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]])

>>>size = data.size
>>>size
100
>>>numpy.reshape(data,size,order='F').reshape((10,10))
array([[ 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90],
[ 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91],
[ 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72, 82, 92],
[ 3, 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83, 93],
[ 4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, 74, 84, 94],
[ 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85, 95],
[ 6, 16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66, 76, 86, 96],
[ 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97],
[ 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 88, 98],
[ 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 99]])

Refer : numpy.reshape( )
http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List_With_Doc#head-11717acafb821da646a8db6997e59b820ac8761a

we can do the same stuff in very bad manner like c, c++ way ….

>>>import numpy
>>>data = numpy.arange(100).reshape((10,10))

>>>data
array([[ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
[10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
[20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29],
[30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39],
[40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49],
[50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59],
[60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69],
[70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79],
[80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89],
[90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]])

>>>rows,cols = data.shape
>>>rows
10
>>>cols
10
>>>dummy = numpy.zeros((rows,cols))
>>>dummy
array([[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.]])

>>>for i in xrange(0,rows):
... for j in xrange(0,cols):
....... dummy[ i ][ j ] = data [ j ][ i ]

>>>

>>>dummy
array([[ 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90],
[ 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91],
[ 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72, 82, 92],
[ 3, 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83, 93],
[ 4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, 74, 84, 94],
[ 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85, 95],
[ 6, 16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66, 76, 86, 96],
[ 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97],
[ 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 88, 98],
[ 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 99]])

This is what Python and Numpy power… 🙂
Enjoy the code…

Regards,
Arulalan.T