Find unique rows in numpy.array

Question

I need to find unique rows in a numpy.array.

For example:

>>> a # I have
array([[1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0],
         


        

Answer 1

Beyond @Jaime excellent answer, another way to collapse a row is to uses a.strides[0] (assuming a is C-contiguous) which is equal to a.dtype.itemsize*a.shape[0]. Furthermore void(n) is a shortcut for dtype((void,n)). we arrive finally to this shortest version :

a[unique(a.view(void(a.strides[0])),1)[1]]

For

[[0 1 1 1 0 0]
 [1 1 1 0 0 0]
 [1 1 1 1 1 0]]