Eric wrote:
On Nov 11, 1:51 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:47:53 -0800, Eric wrote:
I'm learning Python (while coming from MATLAB). One question I have is
that if I have a list with say 8 elements, and I want just a few of them
how do I select them out. In MATLAB, if I just want the first, fifth and
eighth element I might do something like this:
b = a([1 5 8]);
I can't seem to figure out a similar Python construct for selecting
specific indices. Any suggestions?
b = [a[i] for i in [1, 5, 8]]
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
Thanks! It makes sense, but in this case MATLAB seems easier and no
less readable. That said, I know better than for a newbie like me to
question syntax issues.
In my experience, I never do this with lists so there's no optimized syntax for
it. I do use it very often with numpy arrays, and that does have optimized syntax.
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an underlying truth."
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