All, Thanks for the help...I am using the older Numeric 23.4. I have some stuff that cannot use Numarray yet. Numeric does not seam to have the same functionality.
Happy Holidays. John Ertl -----Original Message----- From: Danny Yoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:26 To: Ertl, John Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] maximum value in a Numeric array On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Ertl, John wrote: > I am trying to get the maximum value in a 2-D array. I can use max but > it returns the 1-D array that the max value is in and I then I need to > do max again on that array to get the single max value. > > There has to be a more straightforward way...I have just not found it. > > >>> b = array([[1,2],[3,4]]) > >>> max(b) > array([3, 4]) > >>> c = max(b) > >>> max(c) > 4 Hi John, According to: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/numarray-1.1.html/node35.html#l2h-108 you can use the 'max()' method of an array: ### >>> import numarray >>> b = numarray.array([[1,2],[3,4]]) >>> b.max() 4 ### Hope this helps! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
