numpy.triu

numpy.triu(m, k=0)

Upper triangle of an array.

Return a copy of an array with the elements below the k-th diagonal zeroed. For arrays with ndim exceeding 2, triu will apply to the final two axes.

Please refer to the documentation for tril for further details.

See also

tril

lower triangle of an array

Examples

>>> np.triu([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9],[10,11,12]], -1)
array([[ 1,  2,  3],
       [ 4,  5,  6],
       [ 0,  8,  9],
       [ 0,  0, 12]])

>>> np.triu(np.arange(3*4*5).reshape(3, 4, 5))
array([[[ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4],
        [ 0,  6,  7,  8,  9],
        [ 0,  0, 12, 13, 14],
        [ 0,  0,  0, 18, 19]],
       [[20, 21, 22, 23, 24],
        [ 0, 26, 27, 28, 29],
        [ 0,  0, 32, 33, 34],
        [ 0,  0,  0, 38, 39]],
       [[40, 41, 42, 43, 44],
        [ 0, 46, 47, 48, 49],
        [ 0,  0, 52, 53, 54],
        [ 0,  0,  0, 58, 59]]])