best way to take vertical slices from a matrix?
Olaf Delgado Friedrichs
delgado at okeeffe-pc3.la.asu.edu
Fri Apr 27 08:47:51 EDT 2001
Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:
>delgado at okeeffe-pc3.la.asu.edu (Olaf Delgado Friedrichs) wrote in
><slrn9ecvsj.he1.delgado at okeeffe-pc3.la.asu.edu>:
>
>> If your rows can be tuples, you need something like
>>
>>>>> def vslice(a,j):
>> ... return apply(map, [None] + map(tuple, a))[j]
>> ...
>>
>Surely a single map is sufficient to do everything the original question
>asked?
>>>> print x
>[(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9)]
>>>> apply(map, (None,) + tuple(x))
>[(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)]
You are right, of course! I still get singleton tuples wrong,
occasionally, which might explain why I did not think of this variant.
Olaf
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