Suppose I have 3 x 2 matrix
A = np.arange(3*2).reshape(3,2)
and wish to select elements by index array
I = [0, 1, 0]
to get
[[0],[3],[4]]
How would I do this?
Writing this way
A[:,[0,1,0]]
gives something completely different (what?)
What you can do is pass an iterable of the first dimesion value, and an iterable (e.g. a list) of the second dimension. Something like:
I = [0, 1, 0]
A[range(len(I)),I]
This produces:
>>> A[range(len(I)),I]
array([0, 3, 4])
In case you want it as a 2d array, you can use an additional reshape:
>>> A[range(len(I)),I].reshape(-1,1)
array([[0],
[3],
[4]])
A[:,[0,1,0]]gives something completely different (what?)
It creates a matrix where the first column is the first (0) column of A, the second column is the second (1) column of A, and the third column is again the first (0) column of A.
numpy with aggregation sematics like min, max and etc?np.min, np.max, etc.np.select(A, I, axis=1, keepdims=True)?np.choose is probably the closest, but it works on the first dimension, so you can transpose first, and then do the processing.