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Getting indices using conditional list comprehension

Time:05-13

I have the following np.array:

my_array=np.array([False, False, False, True, True, True, False, True, False, False, False, False, True])

How can I make a list using list comprehension of the indices corresponding to the True elements. In this case the output I'm looking for would be [3,4,5,7,12]

I've tried the following:

cols = [index if feature_condition==True for index, feature_condition in enumerate(my_array)]

But is not working

CodePudding user response:

why specifically a list comprehension?

>>> np.where(my_array==True)
(array([ 3,  4,  5,  7, 12]),)

this does the job and is quicker. The list solution would be:

>>> [index for index, feature_condition in enumerate(my_array) if feature_condition == True]
[3, 4, 5, 7, 12]

Accepted answer of this explains the confusion of the ordering: if/else in a list comprehension

I was curious of the differences:

def np_time(array):
     np.where(my_array==True)
def list_time(array):
    [index for index, feature_condition in enumerate(my_array) if feature_condition == True]

timeit.timeit(lambda: list_time(my_array),number = 1000)
0.007574789000500459
timeit.timeit(lambda: np_time(my_array),number = 1000)
0.0010812399996211752

CodePudding user response:

The order of if is not correct, should be in last -

$more numpy_1.py
import numpy as np
my_array=np.array([False, False, False, True, True, True, False, True, False, False, False, False, True])
print (my_array)

cols = [index for index, feature_condition in enumerate(my_array) if feature_condition]

print (cols)

$python numpy_1.py
[False False False  True  True  True False  True False False False False
  True]
[3, 4, 5, 7, 12]
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