On 17/02/2012 01:04, Elaina Ann Hyde wrote:
Hello all,
I am still scripting away and have reached my next quandry, this one is
much simpler than the last, basically I read in a file with several
columns.
Vmatch3_1=dat[col1]
Vmatch3_2=dat[col2]
Vmatch3_3=dat[col3]
Vdav=5.0
Vhel_fdiff3=max(abs(Vmatch3_1 - Vmatch3_2),abs(Vmatch3_1 -
Vmatch3_3),abs(Vmatch3_3 - Vmatch3_2))
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What I would like this to return is the maximum difference in each case, so
I end up with one column which contains only the largest differences.
now I use this to write the condition:
with_v1_3=(Vhel_fdiff3>= Vdav)
I know the condition works and plots if
Vhel_fdiff3=(Vmatch3_1 - Vmatch3_2)
for example, and I know this syntax would work if it was numbers instead of
columns.
max(abs(1-2),abs(3-7),abs(2-4))
4
The error is:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "double_plot.py", line 109, in<module>
Vhel_fdiff3=max(abs(Vmatch3_1 - Vmatch3_2),abs(Vmatch3_1 -
Vmatch3_3),abs(Vmatch3_3 - Vmatch3_2))
ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is
ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()
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So it can't handle the fact that it's columns of numbers and not single
numbers, so my question is, can I solve this without doing a loop around
it... use numpy, or some other function instead?
I've been searching around and haven't found any good ways forward so I
thought one of you might know. Thanks
~Elaina
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Throwing the error message into google gave a pile of hits from
stackoverflow.com, which indicate that the error message is from numpy.
See if this can get you going
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1322380/gotchas-where-numpy-differs-from-straight-python.
The fourth answer down states "this is a horrible problem" so I'll
duck out here, sorry :)
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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