diff -r 1353cbda5969 -r f99254fc7d70 getting-started-with-arrays/slides.org --- a/getting-started-with-arrays/slides.org Sun Nov 07 01:28:29 2010 +0530 +++ b/getting-started-with-arrays/slides.org Sun Nov 07 15:43:46 2010 +0530 @@ -44,9 +44,12 @@ * Creating Arrays - Creating a 1-dimensional array : In []: a1 = array([1, 2, 3, 4]) + ~[1, 2, 3, 4]~ is a list. +* Creating two-dimensional array - Creating a 2-dimensional array : In []: a2 = array([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8]]) - - Easier method of creating array with consecutive elements. + here we convert a list of lists to an array making a 2-d array. + - Using ~arange()~ function : In []: ar = arange(1,9) * ~reshape()~ method - To reshape an array @@ -67,11 +70,11 @@ * ~.shape~ of array - ~.shape~ To find the shape of the array - : In []: a1.shape + : In []: a2.shape - ~.shape~ returns a tuple of shape * Exercise 2 - Find out the shape of the other arrays(a2, a3, ar) that we have created. + Find out the shape of the other arrays(a1, a3, ar) that we have created. * Homogeneous data - All elements in array should be of same type : In []: a4 = array([1,2,3,'a string'])