Generate NumPy array containing the indices of another NumPy array

Question

I\'d like to generate a np.ndarray NumPy array for a given shape of another NumPy array. The former array should contain the corresponding indices for each cell of

Answer 1

One way to do it with np.indices and np.stack:

np.stack(np.indices((3,)), -1)

#array([[0],
#       [1],
#       [2]])

np.stack(np.indices((3,2)), -1)

#array([[[0, 0],
#        [0, 1]],
#       [[1, 0],
#        [1, 1]],
#       [[2, 0],
#        [2, 1]]])

np.indices returns an array of index grid where each subarray represents an axis:

np.indices((3, 2))

#array([[[0, 0],
#        [1, 1],
#        [2, 2]],        
#       [[0, 1],
#        [0, 1],
#        [0, 1]]])

Then transpose the array with np.stack, stacking index for each element from different axis:

np.stack(np.indices((3,2)), -1)

#array([[[0, 0],
#        [0, 1]],
#       [[1, 0],
#        [1, 1]],
#       [[2, 0],
#        [2, 1]]])