scipy.spatial.

minkowski_distance_p#

scipy.spatial.minkowski_distance_p(x, y, p=2.0)[source]#

Compute the pth power of the L**p distance between two arrays.

For efficiency, this function computes the L**p distance but does not extract the pth root. If p is 1 or infinity, this is equal to the actual L**p distance.

The last dimensions of x and y must be the same length. Any other dimensions must be compatible for broadcasting.

Deprecated since version 1.18.0: This function is deprecated in favor of scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski and will be removed in SciPy 1.20.0.

Parameters:

x(…, K) array_like: Input array.
y(…, K) array_like: Input array.
pfloat, 1 <= p <= infinity: Which Minkowski p-norm to use.

Returns:

distndarray: pth power of the distance between the input arrays.

Notes

Array API Standard Support

minkowski_distance_p is not in-scope for support of Python Array API Standard compatible backends other than NumPy.

See Support for the array API standard for more information.

Examples

>>> from scipy.spatial import minkowski_distance_p
>>> minkowski_distance_p([[0, 0], [0, 0]], [[1, 1], [0, 1]])
array([2., 1.])