[Numpy-discussion] puzzle: generate index with many ranges

[Raik Gruenberg]

Jim Vickroy wrote:
> Raik Gruenberg wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> perhaps someone has a bright idea for this one:
>>
>> I want to concatenate ranges of numbers into a single array (for indexing). So I
>> have generated an array "a" with starting positions, for example:
>>
>> a = [4, 0, 11]
>>
>> I have an array b with stop positions:
>>
>> b = [11, 4, 15]
>>
>> and I would like to generate an index array that takes 4..11, then 0..4, then
>> 11..15.
>>   
> Does this help? 
> 
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit 
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> a = [4, 0, 11]
>  >>> b = [11, 4, 15]
>  >>> zip(a,b)
> [(4, 11), (0, 4), (11, 15)]
>  >>>

Mhm, I got this far. But how do I get from here to a single index array

[ 4, 5, 6, ... 10, 0, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14 ] ?

Greetings
Raik

> 



> Apologies if I'm stating the obvious.
> 
> -- jv
>> In reality, a and b have 10000+ elements and the arrays to be "sliced" are very
>> large so I want to avoid any for loops etc. Any idea how this could be done? I
>> thought some combination of *repeat* and adding of *arange* should do the trick
>> but just cannot nail it down.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any hints!
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Raik
>>
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