[Python-ideas] fancy indexing

[Sturla Molden]

> Den 20.07.2010 20:16, skrev Guido van Rossum:

> Yes, it is roughtly like a WHERE statement in SQL or Fortran 90, or
> Python's built-in "filter" function (albeit more flexible).

Fancy indexing is actually more like a join. Since the result from a
numpy.where one array can be used to filter another array, it fancy
indexing would be like a join between tables in a relational database.

def join(blist, index):
    return [blist[i] for i in index]

The big difference between fancy indexing and a join method is of course
that indexing can appear on the left side of an expression.

Sturla