On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Stefan Otte <stefan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> quite often I want to evaluate a function on a grid in a n-D space.
> What I end up doing (and what I really dislike) looks something like this:
>
>   x = np.linspace(0, 5, 20)
>   M1, M2 = np.meshgrid(x, x)
>   X = np.column_stack([M1.flatten(), M2.flatten()])
>   X.shape  # (400, 2)
>
>   fancy_function(X)
>
> I don't think I ever used `meshgrid` in any other way.
> Is there a better way to create such a grid space?
>
> I wrote myself a little helper function:
>
>   def gridspace(linspaces):
>       return np.column_stack([space.flatten()
>                               for space in np.meshgrid(*linspaces)])
>
> But maybe something like this should be part of numpy?
>

Isn't what you are trying to build a cartesian product function? There is a
neat, efficient implementation of such a function in StackOverflow, by our
own pv.:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1208118/using-numpy-to-build-an-array-of-all-combinations-of-two-arrays/1235363#1235363

Perhaps we could make this part of numpy.lib.arraysetops? Isthere room for
other combinatoric generators, i.e. combinations, permutations... as in
itertools?

Jaime

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