Is there a way through python numpy operations to produce the following result?
Input 1d array :
[3, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1]
Output 2d array :
3 0 0 2 2 1
0 0 0 2 2 1
0 0 0 2 2 1
2 2 2 2 2 1
2 2 2 2 2 1
1 1 1 1 1 1
>Solution :
Assuming the input array always contains increasing values, you can use np.maximum(arr[None,:], arr[:, None]). This compute the maximum of arr[i] and arr[j] for all items at the location (i, j) of the output array thanks to Numpy broadcasting. If the input does not always contains increasing values, then the out needs to be better defined.