[Numpy-discussion] Specifying Index Programmatically

[T J]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Neil Martinsen-Burrell<nmb@wartburg.edu> wrote:
>
> The ellipsis is a built-in python constant called Ellipsis.  The colon
> is a slice object, again a python built-in, called with None as an
> argument.  So, z[...,2,:] == z[Ellipsis,2,slice(None)].
>

Very helpful!  Thank you.  I didn't run into this information in any
of the indexing tutorials I ran through.  If I get some time, I'll try
to add it.