# cupy.diag_indices¶

cupy.diag_indices(n, ndim=2)[source]

Return the indices to access the main diagonal of an array.

Returns a tuple of indices that can be used to access the main diagonal of an array with ndim >= 2 dimensions and shape (n, n, …, n).

Parameters
• n (int) – The size, along each dimension of the arrays for which the indices are to be returned.

• ndim (int) – The number of dimensions. default 2.

Examples

Create a set of indices to access the diagonal of a (4, 4) array:

>>> di = cupy.diag_indices(4)
>>> di
(array([0, 1, 2, 3]), array([0, 1, 2, 3]))
>>> a = cupy.arange(16).reshape(4, 4)
>>> a
array([[ 0,  1,  2,  3],
[ 4,  5,  6,  7],
[ 8,  9, 10, 11],
[12, 13, 14, 15]])
>>> a[di] = 100
>>> a
array([[100,   1,   2,   3],
[  4, 100,   6,   7],
[  8,   9, 100,  11],
[ 12,  13,  14, 100]])


Create indices to manipulate a 3-D array:

>>> d3 = cupy.diag_indices(2, 3)
>>> d3
(array([0, 1]), array([0, 1]), array([0, 1]))


And use it to set the diagonal of an array of zeros to 1:

>>> a = cupy.zeros((2, 2, 2), dtype=int)
>>> a[d3] = 1
>>> a
array([[[1, 0],
[0, 0]],
<BLANKLINE>
[[0, 0],
[0, 1]]])