How to find the index of a value in 2d array in Python?

Question

I need to figure out how I can find all the index of a value in a 2d numpy array.

For example, I have the following 2d array:

([[1 1 0 0],
  [0 0 1 1         


        

Answer 1

You can use np.where to return a tuple of arrays of x and y indices where a given condition holds in an array.

If a is the name of your array:

>>> np.where(a == 1)
(array([0, 0, 1, 1]), array([0, 1, 2, 3]))

If you want a list of (x, y) pairs, you could zip the two arrays:

>>> zip(*np.where(a == 1))
[(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3)]

Or, even better, @jme points out that np.asarray(x).T can be a more efficient way to generate the pairs.

Answer 2

The problem with the list comprehension you provided is that it only goes one level deep, you need a nested list comprehension:

a = [[1,0,1],[0,0,1], [1,1,0]]

>>> [(ix,iy) for ix, row in enumerate(a) for iy, i in enumerate(row) if i == 0]
[(0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1), (2, 2)]

That being said, if you are working with a numpy array, it's better to use the built in functions as suggested by ajcr.

Answer 3

Using numpy, argwhere may be the best solution:

import numpy as np

array = np.array([[1, 1, 0, 0],
                  [0, 0, 1, 1],
                  [0, 0, 0, 0]])

solutions = np.argwhere(array == 1)
print(solutions)

>>>
[[0 0]
 [0 1]
 [1 2]
 [1 3]]