[Numpy-discussion] indexing of arbitrary axis and arbitrary slice?

Dear all,

Is there some way to index the numpy array by specifying arbitrary axis and arbitrary slice, while not knowing the actual shape of the data? For example, I have a 3-dim data, data.shape = (3,4,5) Is there a way to retrieve data[:,0,:] by using something like np.retrieve_data(data,axis=2,slice=0), by this way you don't have to know the actual shape of the array. for for 4-dim data, np.retrieve_data(data,axis=2,slice=0) will actually be data[:,0,:,:]

thanks in advance,

Chao