python - How to remove all rows in a numpy.ndarray that contain non-numeric values

Question

Basically, I'm doing some data analysis. I read in a dataset as a numpy.ndarray and some of the values are missing (either by just not being there, being NaN, or by being a string written "NA").

I want to clean out all rows containing any entry like this. How do I do that with a numpy ndarray?

Answer 1

>>> a = np.array([[1,2,3], [4,5,np.nan], [7,8,9]])
array([[  1.,   2.,   3.],
       [  4.,   5.,  nan],
       [  7.,   8.,   9.]])

>>> a[~np.isnan(a).any(axis=1)]
array([[ 1.,  2.,  3.],
       [ 7.,  8.,  9.]])

and reassign this to a.

Explanation: np.isnan(a) returns a similar array with True where NaN, False elsewhere. .any(axis=1) reduces an m*n array to n with an logical or operation on the whole rows, ~ inverts True/False and a[ ] chooses just the rows from the original array, which have True within the brackets.