Probably the easiest way is to emulate what Python is doing in M[i,:] and M[:,i]. You can create the : with PySlice_New(NULL, NULL, NULL), and the i with PyInt_FromLong. Then create a tuple with Py_BuildValue and use PyObject_GetItem to do the slicing. It is possible to do the same thing directly in C, but as you've found there aren't convenient APIs for this yet. Cheers, Mark On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Johann Bauer <jbauer-news@web.de> wrote:

Dear experts,

is there a C-API function for numpy which implements Python's multidimensional indexing? Say, I have a 2d-array

PyArrayObject * M;

and an index

int i;

how do I extract the i-th row or column M[i,:] respectively M[:,i]?

I am looking for a function which gives again a PyArrayObject * and which is a view to M (no copied data; the result should be another PyArrayObject whose data and strides points to the correct memory portion of M).

I searched the API documentation, Google and mailing lists for quite a long time but didn't find anything. Can you help me?

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