Swapping the dimensions of a numpy array
The canonical way of doing this in numpy would be to use np.transpose
's optional permutation argument. In your case, to go from ijkl
to klij
, the permutation is (2, 3, 0, 1)
, e.g.:
In [16]: a = np.empty((2, 3, 4, 5))
In [17]: b = np.transpose(a, (2, 3, 0, 1))
In [18]: b.shape
Out[18]: (4, 5, 2, 3)
Please note: Jaime's answer is better. NumPy provides np.transpose
precisely for this purpose.
Or use np.einsum; this is perhaps a perversion of its intended purpose, but the syntax is quite nice:
In [195]: A = np.random.random((2,4,3,5))
In [196]: B = np.einsum('klij->ijkl', A)
In [197]: A.shape
Out[197]: (2, 4, 3, 5)
In [198]: B.shape
Out[198]: (3, 5, 2, 4)
In [199]: import itertools as IT
In [200]: all(B[k,l,i,j] == A[i,j,k,l] for i,j,k,l in IT.product(*map(range, A.shape)))
Out[200]: True