Suppose we have
A = [1 2; 3 4]
In numpy, the following syntax will produce
A[[1,2],[1,2]] = [1,4]
But, in julia, the following produce a permutation which output
A[[1,2],[1,2]] = [1 2; 3 4]
Is there a concise way to achieve the same thing as numpy without using for loops?
To get what you want I would use CartesianIndex like this:
julia> A[CartesianIndex.([(1,1), (2,2)])]
2-element Vector{Int64}:
1
4
or
julia> A[[CartesianIndex(1,1), CartesianIndex(2,2)]]
2-element Vector{Int64}:
1
4
Like Bogumil said, you probably want to use CartesianIndex. But if you want to get your result from supplying the vectors of indices for each dimensions, as in your Python [1,2],[1,2] example, you need to zip these indices first:
julia> A[CartesianIndex.(zip([1,2], [1,2]))]
2-element Vector{Int64}:
1
4
How does this work? zip traverses both vectors of indices at the same time (like a zipper) and returns an iterator over the tuples of indices:
julia> zip([1,2],[1,2]) # is a lazy iterator
zip([1, 2], [1, 2])
julia> collect(zip([1,2],[1,2])) # collect to show all the tuples
2-element Vector{Tuple{Int64, Int64}}:
(1, 1)
(2, 2)
and then CartesianIndex turns them into cartesian indices, which can then be used to get the corresponding values in A:
julia> CartesianIndex.(zip([1,2],[1,2]))
2-element Vector{CartesianIndex{2}}:
CartesianIndex(1, 1)
CartesianIndex(2, 2)
