dask.array.block
dask.array.block¶
- dask.array.block(arrays, allow_unknown_chunksizes=False)[source]¶
Assemble an nd-array from nested lists of blocks.
Blocks in the innermost lists are concatenated along the last dimension (-1), then these are concatenated along the second-last dimension (-2), and so on until the outermost list is reached
Blocks can be of any dimension, but will not be broadcasted using the normal rules. Instead, leading axes of size 1 are inserted, to make
block.ndim
the same for all blocks. This is primarily useful for working with scalars, and means that code likeblock([v, 1])
is valid, wherev.ndim == 1
.When the nested list is two levels deep, this allows block matrices to be constructed from their components.
- Parameters
- arraysnested list of array_like or scalars (but not tuples)
If passed a single ndarray or scalar (a nested list of depth 0), this is returned unmodified (and not copied).
Elements shapes must match along the appropriate axes (without broadcasting), but leading 1s will be prepended to the shape as necessary to make the dimensions match.
- allow_unknown_chunksizes: bool
Allow unknown chunksizes, such as come from converting from dask dataframes. Dask.array is unable to verify that chunks line up. If data comes from differently aligned sources then this can cause unexpected results.
- Returns
- block_arrayndarray
The array assembled from the given blocks.
The dimensionality of the output is equal to the greatest of: * the dimensionality of all the inputs * the depth to which the input list is nested
- Raises
- ValueError
If list depths are mismatched - for instance,
[[a, b], c]
is illegal, and should be spelt[[a, b], [c]]
If lists are empty - for instance,
[[a, b], []]
See also
concatenate
Join a sequence of arrays together.
stack
Stack arrays in sequence along a new dimension.
hstack
Stack arrays in sequence horizontally (column wise).
vstack
Stack arrays in sequence vertically (row wise).
dstack
Stack arrays in sequence depth wise (along third dimension).
vsplit
Split array into a list of multiple sub-arrays vertically.
Notes
When called with only scalars,
block
is equivalent to an ndarray call. Soblock([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
is equivalent toarray([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
.This function does not enforce that the blocks lie on a fixed grid.
block([[a, b], [c, d]])
is not restricted to arrays of the form:AAAbb AAAbb cccDD
But is also allowed to produce, for some
a, b, c, d
:AAAbb AAAbb cDDDD
Since concatenation happens along the last axis first, block is _not_ capable of producing the following directly:
AAAbb cccbb cccDD
Matlab’s “square bracket stacking”,
[A, B, ...; p, q, ...]
, is equivalent toblock([[A, B, ...], [p, q, ...]])
.