Equivalent of `polyfit` for a 2D polynomial in Python

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Here is an example showing how you can use numpy.linalg.lstsq for this task:

import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0, 1, 20)
y = np.linspace(0, 1, 20)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y, copy=False)
Z = X**2 + Y**2 + np.random.rand(*X.shape)*0.01

X = X.flatten()
Y = Y.flatten()

A = np.array([X*0+1, X, Y, X**2, X**2*Y, X**2*Y**2, Y**2, X*Y**2, X*Y]).T
B = Z.flatten()

coeff, r, rank, s = np.linalg.lstsq(A, B)

the adjusting coefficients coeff are:

array([ 0.00423365,  0.00224748,  0.00193344,  0.9982576 , -0.00594063,
        0.00834339,  0.99803901, -0.00536561,  0.00286598])

Note that coeff[3] and coeff[6] respectively correspond to X**2 and Y**2, and they are close to 1. because the example data was created with Z = X**2 + Y**2 + small_random_component.

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