construct a structure

asked 2013-11-26 10:09:38 +0100

gundamlh
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Dear all,

I want to construct a structured array which has 2 fields storing 2 different data type, one is a float number and the other is a polynomial matrix.

Structured Arrays (and Record Arrays) Can I use this NumPy method or any other else? NumPy doesn't know/understand the data type of a polynomial matrix defined in SAGE.

sage: R.<s> = PolynomialRing(QQ); R
Univariate Polynomial Ring in s over Rational Field
sage: H = matrix(1,2, [(s+5)**2, s]); H
[s^2 + 10*s + 25               s]
sage: H.parent()
Full MatrixSpace of 1 by 2 dense matrices over Univariate Polynomial Ring in s over Rational Field
sage: type(H[0,0])
<type 'sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_rational_flint.Polynomial_rational_flint'>
sage: sys = np.zeros(1, dtype=[('TF','sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_rational_flint.Polynomial_rational_flint',(1,2)),('Ts','f4')])
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/xxx/Programs/sage-5.10-linux-64bit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/all_cmdline.pyc in <module>()
----> 1 sys = np.zeros(Integer(1), dtype=[('TF','sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_rational_flint.Polynomial_rational_flint',(Integer(1),Integer(2))),('Ts','f4')])

TypeError: data type "sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_rational_flint.Polynomial_rational_flint" not understood

Thanks in advance!

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answered 2013-11-29 09:24:06 +0100

niles
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Unless you need something special about structured arrays, you could just define a new object class:

sage: class UsefulData(SageObject):
....:     def __init__(self,my_float,my_matrix):
....:         self.float = my_float
....:         self.matrix = my_matrix
....:

(I did this at a sage command prompt, but it's better in a notebook cell or in a separate file attached to the sage session. That way you can easily edit and update the class as you do more and more sophisticated things with it.)

sage: R.<s> = PolynomialRing(QQ); R
Univariate Polynomial Ring in s over Rational Field

sage: d1 = UsefulData(pi.n(),matrix([[1, s],[s^2, -1]]))
sage: d1.float
3.14159265358979
sage: d1.matrix
[  1   s]
[s^2  -1]

sage: d2 = UsefulData(e.n(),matrix([[s^2, s^3],[s^5, s^7]]))
sage: d2.float
2.71828182845905
sage: d2.matrix
[s^2  s^3]
[s^5  s^7]

There is a further advantage here: if you want to do something with this data, you can attach functions (methods) to the object class too. If computational time or space is an issue, you can convert the expensive parts to cython classes/attributes.

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wow! Thanks! >convert the expensive parts to cython classes/attributes.< http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/cdef_classes.html .... just use "cpdef" instead of "def" ?

gundamlh ( 2013-11-29 14:06:26 +0100 )edit

using cpdef does give some speedup, but there is a lot more you can do too. Just remember that premature optimization is a terrible mistake. Optimization without profiling is usually a waste of time too.

niles ( 2013-12-02 08:26:28 +0100 )edit

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answered 2013-11-29 11:13:43 +0100

nbruin
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If you just want to package several data items together and refer to them by a name rather than a numerical index (in which case you could use a list), you can use the python library namedtuple:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/coll...

You'd end up with something like:

sage: from collections import namedtuple
sage: T=namedtuple('T',['scalar','M'])
sage: t=T(2.0,H)
sage: t
T(scalar=2.00000000000000, M=[s^2 + 10*s + 25               s])
sage: t.scalar
2.00000000000000
sage: t.M
[s^2 + 10*s + 25               s]

It's meant to be a variant of a tuple so it's immutable (after creation you can't change the attributes). If you need that, you can just write your own class, as Niles points out.

You could also make it a dictionary if you don't mind referring to the field names by string:

sage: d=dict(scalar=2.0,M=H)
sage: d
{'M': [s^2 + 10*s + 25               s], 'scalar': 2.00000000000000}
sage: d['M']
[s^2 + 10*s + 25               s]