I have written the following code for creating a 2D array and filing the first element of each row. I am new to numpy. Is there a better way to do this?
y=np.zeros(N*T1).reshape(N,T1)
x = np.linspace(0,L,num = N)
for k in range(0,N):
y[k][0] = np.sin(PI*x[k]/L)
Yes, since numpy vectorizes operations, you can just do:
y[:,0] = np.sin(np.pi * x / L)
Note that y[:,0] grabs the first column of y (the : in the first coordinate essentially means "grab all rows", and the 0 in the second coordinate means "from the column at index 0" (ie the first column)). Since np.sin(np.pi * x / L) is also an array, you can assign the latter to the former directly.
This question is rather for codereview@stackexchange, but this snippet works!
import numpy as np
N = 1000 # arbitrary
T1 = 1000 # arbitrary
L = 10 # arbitrary
x = np.linspace(0,L,num = N)
# you don't need reshape here, give the size as a tuple!
y = np.zeros((N,T1))
# use a vectorized call here:
y[:,0] = np.sin(np.pi*x/L)
