unzip array of arrays?

[Robert Kern]

Unknown wrote:
> On 2009-01-22, Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
>> Although it's trivial to program, I wondered whether
>> there was a builtin or particularly concise way to
>> express this idea:
>>
>>> a = [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> field[a, 2]
>> [2, 4, 6]
>>
>> where field() is some made up function.
> 
> The above example is a great application for numpy's array
> type:
> 
>   http://numpy.scipy.org/
> 
> Here's an example showing how you extract a column using
> indexing operations:
>   
>   http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial#head-864862d3f2bb4c32f04260fac61eb4ef34788c4c
>   
> [I assume numpy is still the numerical/array package du jour?]

Yes.

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Robert Kern

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