Perl's @foo[3,7,1,-1] ?

[Alan G Isaac]

On 6/13/2009 2:11 PM kj apparently wrote:
> Switching from Perl here, and having a hard time letting go...
> 
> Suppose I have an "array" foo, and that I'm interested in the 4th, 8th,
> second, and last element in that array.  In Perl I could write:
> 
>   my @wanted = @foo[3, 7, 1, -1];

>>> a = np.arange(10)
>>> a
array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
>>> a[[3,7,1,-1]]
array([3, 7, 1, 9])

hth,
Alan Isaac