On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 19:10, Jochen Schroeder <cycoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/04/09 21:20, Robert Kern wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 20:53, Nathan Faggian <nfagg...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >> > HI, >> > I want to construct a large complex matrix, I have the real and imaginary >> > components as double vectors, is there a fast way to construct a complex >> > vector in numpy? >> >> C = np.empty((n,m), dtype=complex) >> C.real.flat[:] = real_values >> C.imag.flat[:] = imag_values >> > Just a question, is there any advantage to doing > C = 1.j *imag_values + real_values > ?
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