Python: Differentiating between row and column vectors

Question

Is there a good way of differentiating between row and column vectors in python? So far I\'m using numpy and scipy and what I see so far is that If I was to give one a vecto

Answer 1

If you want a distiction for this case I would recommend to use a matrix instead, where:

matrix([1,2,3]) == matrix([1,2,3]).transpose()

gives:

matrix([[ True, False, False],
        [False,  True, False],
        [False, False,  True]], dtype=bool)

You can also use a ndarray explicitly adding a second dimension:

array([1,2,3])[None,:]
#array([[1, 2, 3]])

and:

array([1,2,3])[:,None]
#array([[1],
#       [2],
#       [3]])