Thanks Robert. This is exactly what I want. I have a feeling that there must be something in numpy that can do the job and I didn't know. Thanks again,

Chao

2012/7/13 Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Chao YUE <chaoyuejoy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks all for the discussion. Actually I am trying to use something like
> numpy ndarray indexing in the function. Like when I call:
>
> func(a,'1:3,:,2:4'), it knows I want to retrieve a[1:3,:,2:4], and
> func(a,'1:3,:,4') for a[1:3,:,4] ect.
> I am very close now.

[~]
|1> from numpy import index_exp

[~]
|2> index_exp[1:3,:,2:4]
(slice(1, 3, None), slice(None, None, None), slice(2, 4, None))

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