Find unique rows in numpy.array

Question

I need to find unique rows in a numpy.array.

For example:

>>> a # I have
array([[1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0],
         


        

Answer 1

Based on the answer in this page I have written a function that replicates the capability of MATLAB's unique(input,'rows') function, with the additional feature to accept tolerance for checking the uniqueness. It also returns the indices such that c = data[ia,:] and data = c[ic,:]. Please report if you see any discrepancies or errors.

def unique_rows(data, prec=5):
    import numpy as np
    d_r = np.fix(data * 10 ** prec) / 10 ** prec + 0.0
    b = np.ascontiguousarray(d_r).view(np.dtype((np.void, d_r.dtype.itemsize * d_r.shape[1])))
    _, ia = np.unique(b, return_index=True)
    _, ic = np.unique(b, return_inverse=True)
    return np.unique(b).view(d_r.dtype).reshape(-1, d_r.shape[1]), ia, ic