Hi

Once again I need your help to understand one topic concerning slicing topic, or in other word I do not understand how it works in that particular (but common) case; I’m trying to reassign the 4 first values in an array:

• If I use [:3] I’m expecting to have 4 values (index 0 to 3 included)
• Ditto with [0:3]
• If I use [3:] I have 2 values as expected (indexes 3 and 4)

Both code and results are presented here after, so this way of thinking worked so far in other calculations, and it fails here?

 Thanks

 Paul

ps : extraction from the doc (https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.indexing.html)

[... all indices are zero-based ...]

Code:

x = np.random.rand(5); print("x = ",x);

## test 1

print("partials =\n %s \nor %s \nor %s" %( x[:3], x[0:3], x[3:]) )

print("x[0] : ",x[0]); print("x[1] : ",x[1]); print("x[2] : ",x[2]); print("x[3] : ",x[3])

## test 2

y = np.ones(4); print("y = ",y)

x[0:4] = y

print("x final = ",x)

Provide:

x =  [ 0.39921271  0.07097531  0.37044695  0.28078163  0.11590451]

partials =

 [ 0.39921271  0.07097531  0.37044695]

or [ 0.39921271  0.07097531  0.37044695]

or [ 0.28078163  0.11590451]

x[0] :  0.39921271184

x[1] :  0.0709753133926

x[2] :  0.370446946245

x[3] :  0.280781629

y =  [ 1.  1.  1.  1.]

x final =  [ 1.          1.          1.          1.          0.11590451]