Why aren't my data being masked?

Question

data = [[0, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
        [1, 1, 1, 0, 5, 5, 5, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6],
        [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6]]

The data object i have is a <class 'numpy.ndarray'>

Knowing data is a numpy object i did the following:

data = np.array(data)

i want to set the numbers inside a list i give as input to 0, what i tried:

data[~np.isin(data,[2,4])] = 0

i expect all the 2 and 4 occurrences in the previous matrix to be 0 and the rest to keep their values, what i got:

TypeError: only integer scalar arrays can be converted to a scalar index

also tried to give data as a numpy array using np.array gave error as well.

Answer 1

You should not negate the mask from np.isin check if you intend to set those matching values to 0. The below code works just fine:

Also, you should make the data a numpy array instead of list of lists.

In [10]: data = np.array([[0, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
    ...:         [1, 1, 1, 0, 5, 5, 5, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6],
    ...:         [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6]])
    ...:         

In [11]: data[np.isin(data, [2, 4])] = 0

In [12]: data
Out[12]: 
array([[0, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
       [1, 1, 1, 0, 5, 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6],
       [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6]])

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Just to reproduce your error:

In [13]: data = [[0, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
    ...:         [1, 1, 1, 0, 5, 5, 5, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6],
    ...:         [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 6, 0, 0, 6, 6]]
    ...:         

In [14]: data[np.isin(data, [2, 4])] = 0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-14-06ee1662f1f2> in <module>()
----> 1 data[np.isin(data, [2, 4])] = 0

TypeError: only integer scalar arrays can be converted to a scalar index