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henrydark on Nov 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: APL deserves its renaissance too (2018)

Replicate looks like numpy's repeat. For example

  np.repeat(list("abcd"), [2,1,0,2])

is equivalent to the first example in the link.

mlochbaum on Nov 17, 2022 [–]

Ah, thank you! I'd tried to find this for implementing BQN in NumPy (never finished) and didn't. Maybe I thought it only worked with a scalar for the number of repetitions.

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