Fix Python – how does multiplication differ for NumPy Matrix vs Array classes?

The numpy docs recommend using array instead of matrix for working with matrices. However, unlike octave (which I was using till recently), * doesn’t perform matrix multiplication, you need to use the function matrixmultipy(). I feel this makes the code very unreadable.
Does anybody share my views, and has found a solution?
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Fix Python – numpy get index where value is true

>>> ex=np.arange(30)
>>> e=np.reshape(ex,[3,10])
>>> e
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]])
>>> e>15
array([[False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False,
False],
[False, False, False, False, False, False, ….

Fix Python – How to get element-wise matrix multiplication (Hadamard product) in numpy?

I have two matrices
a = np.matrix([[1,2], [3,4]])
b = np.matrix([[5,6], [7,8]])

and I want to get the element-wise product, [[1*5,2*6], [3*7,4*8]], equaling
[[5,12], [21,32]]
I have tried
print(np.dot(a,b))

and
print(a*b)

but both give the result
[[19 22], [43 50]]
which is the matrix product, not the element-wise product. How can I get the ….

Fix Python – Convert a 1D array to a 2D array in numpy

I want to convert a 1-dimensional array into a 2-dimensional array by specifying the number of columns in the 2D array. Something that would work like this:
> import numpy as np
> A = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6])
> B = vec2matrix(A,ncol=2)
> B
array([[1, 2],
[3, 4],
[5, 6]])

Does numpy have a function that works like my made-up function ….

Fix Python – Numpy matrix to array

I am using numpy. I have a matrix with 1 column and N rows and I want to get an array from with N elements.
For example, if i have M = matrix([[1], [2], [3], [4]]), I want to get A = array([1,2,3,4]).
To achieve it, I use A = np.array(M.T)[0]. Does anyone know a more elegant way to get the same result?
Thanks!
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Fix Python – Difference between numpy.array shape (R, 1) and (R,)

In numpy, some of the operations return in shape (R, 1) but some return (R,). This will make matrix multiplication more tedious since explicit reshape is required. For example, given a matrix M, if we want to do numpy.dot(M[:,0], numpy.ones((1, R))) where R is the number of rows (of course, the same issue also occurs column-wise). We will get matr….

Fix Python – What are the differences between numpy arrays and matrices? Which one should I use?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
From what I’ve seen, either one can work as a replacement for the other if need be, so should I bother using both or should I stick to just one of them?
Will the style of the program influence my choice? I am doing some machine learning using numpy, so there are indeed lots of matrices, but also l….