Hi Zach and Derek, thank you very much for your quick and clear answers. Of course the third parameter is the out array, I was just being very stupid! (I had read the documentation though, but somehow it didn't make it to my brain :-) Sorry...
> Read the documentation for numpy.minimum and numpy.maximum: they give > you element-wise minimum values from two arrays passed as arguments. > E.g.: > >>> numpy.minimum([1,2,3],[3,2,1]) > array([1, 2, 1]) > The optional third parameter to numpy.minimum is an "out" array - an > array to place the results into instead of making a new array for that > purpose. (This can save time / memory in various cases.) Thanks again, Emmanuelle _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
