Retrieve index value from numpy array

Question

I'm trying to create a function that will calculate the lattice distance (number of horizontal and vertical steps) between elements in a multi-dimensional numpy array. For this I need to retrieve the actual numbers from the indexes of each element as I iterate through the array. I want to store those values as numbers that I can run through a distance formula.

For the example array A

 A=np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]])

I'd like to create a loop that iterates through each element and for the first element 1 it would retrieve a=0, b=0 since 1 is at A[0,0], then a=0, b=1 for element 2 as it is located at A[0,1], and so on...

My envisioned output is two numbers (corresponding to the two index values for that element) for each element in the array. So in the example above, it would be the two values that I am assigning to be a and b. I only will need to retrieve these two numbers within the loop (rather than save separately as another data object).

Any thoughts on how to do this would be greatly appreciated!

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Answer 1

You can iterate through the values in your array with numpy.ndenumerate to get the indices of the values in your array.

Using the documentation above:

A = np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]])
for index, values in np.ndenumerate(A):
    print(index, values)  # operate here

Retrieve index value from numpy array

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