Is there a multi-dimensional version of arange/linspace in numpy?

Question

I would like a list of 2d NumPy arrays (x,y) , where each x is in {-5, -4.5, -4, -3.5, ..., 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5} and the same for y.

I could do

x = np.ar         


        

Answer 1

I think you want np.meshgrid:

Return coordinate matrices from coordinate vectors.

Make N-D coordinate arrays for vectorized evaluations of N-D scalar/vector fields over N-D grids, given one-dimensional coordinate arrays x1, x2,..., xn.

import numpy as np
x = np.arange(-5, 5.1, 0.5)
y = np.arange(-5, 5.1, 0.5)
X,Y = np.meshgrid(x,y)

you can convert that to your desired output with

XY=np.array([X.flatten(),Y.flatten()]).T

print XY
array([[-5. , -5. ],
       [-4.5, -5. ],
       [-4. , -5. ],
       [-3.5, -5. ],
       [-3. , -5. ],
       [-2.5, -5. ],
       ....
       [ 3. ,  5. ],
       [ 3.5,  5. ],
       [ 4. ,  5. ],
       [ 4.5,  5. ],
       [ 5. ,  5. ]])