[Numpy-discussion] How do I make a diagonal matrix? (original) (raw)

Sven Schreiber svetosch at gmx.net
Fri Jun 23 11:07:32 EDT 2006


Keith Goodman schrieb:

Isn't rand(3,1) a vector?

afaik not in numpy's terms, because two numbers are given for the dimensions -- I also struggle with that, because I'm a matrix guy like you ;-)

Off list I was given the example: x=rand(3) diag(3) That works. But my x is a Nx1 matrix. I can't get it to work with matrices.

ok, good point; with your x then diag(x.A[:,0]) should work, although it's not very pretty. Maybe there are better ways, but I agree it would be nice to be able to use matrices directly.

-sven



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