djs_laxisgen¶

pydl.pydlutils.misc.djs_laxisgen(dims, iaxis=0)[source]¶

Returns an integer array where each element of the array is set equal to its index number along the specified axis.

Parameters:

dims : list

Dimensions of the array to return.

iaxis : int, optional

Index along this dimension.

Returns:

numpy.ndarray

An array of indexes with dtype=int32.

Raises:

:exc:`ValueError`

If iaxis is greater than or equal to the number of dimensions.

Notes

For two or more dimensions, there is no difference between this routine and djs_laxisnum().

Examples

>>> from pydl.pydlutils.misc import djs_laxisgen
>>> print(djs_laxisgen([4,4]))
[[0 0 0 0]
 [1 1 1 1]
 [2 2 2 2]
 [3 3 3 3]]