On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:00:52PM +0100, Christian Meesters wrote: > This questions might seem stupid, but I didn't get a clever solution myself, > or found one in the archives, the cookbook, etc. . If I overlooked something, > please give a pointer. > > Well, if I have an 1D array like > [ 0. , 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5] > ,a scalar like 0.122 and want to retrieve the index postion of the closest > value of the scalar in the array: Is there any fast method to get > this?
If I understand correctly: data = N.array([ 0. , 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5]) diff = N.abs(data - val) print N.argmin(diff) Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
