[Numpy-discussion] argsort

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fancy indexing is a funny creature and not easy to understand in more than
> one dimension. What is happening is that each index is replaced by the
> corresponding row of a and the result is of shape (5,2,2). To do what you
> want to do:
>
> In [20]: a[i, [[0,1]]*5]
> Out[20]:
> array([[ 1,  3],
>        [ 4,  6],
>        [ 8,  7],
>        [11,  9],
>        [23, 12]])
>
> I agree that there should be an easier way to do this.

Slightly easier, though no more transparent:

  a[i, [0,1]]

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.indexing.html#indexing-multi-dimensional-arrays

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Robert Kern