[Numpy-discussion] How to create a boolean sub-array from a larger string array?

[Andriy Basilisk]

> You can always use something like
>
>   mdat[[2,4]] == '*'
>
> to get the boolean array you want. This scheme can work with any string
> representation of True and False.
>

Dang! I keep forgetting that a conditional test can return an array
like that - thanks for the reminder, this will clean up my ugly code
from before :)

Back to the drawing board,
-Basilisk96