[Numpy-discussion] indexing question

[Todd Miller]

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 19:27, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Todd Miller wrote:
> 
> > Try foo[[0,2]].  Note that the array indexing syntax is a little picky:
> > foo[(0,2)] (tuple index) won't work,  just foo[[0,2]] (list index) or
> > foo[array([0,2])] (array index).
> 
> Thanks. I see this extracts the relevant rows. How about columns? 

I think for columns you need to transpose the matrix or use take() with
the right axis=1.

> Also,
> where is this documented? 

pp 35,36,37,49,50,51

> I spent quite a while poring over the numarray
> documentation. The section on index arrays looked relevant but I found it
> difficult to understand.

That's probably a corollary to the fact that index arrays, put, and take
*are* a little difficult to understand, even more so in numarray than in
Numeric.

Regards,
Todd

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