On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:32:39AM -0400, Michael Langford wrote:
> On 10/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have been using Python for years now, in all kinds of environments, but
> > example: x is vector of length 5, with value "a","b","c","d","e" , then:
> >
> > x[3,
Michael Langford wrote:
> When you call [] on an object, it calls __getitem__The definition for
> getitem is __getitem__(self,key), where key can be an integer or a slice
> object.
Or a tuple of integers/slices.
> You may want to try to write a PEP for python 3000. So much is being
> changed
On 10/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have been using Python for years now, in all kinds of environments, but
> example: x is vector of length 5, with value "a","b","c","d","e" , then:
>
> x[3,1,1,1,3,2] # gives [d, b, b, b, d, c]
>
> What is the python equivalent?
a.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> in matrix oriented languages like R, Octave / Matlab, and NumPy,
> vectors,
> lists, and matrices support slice lists of arbitrary indices.
Python is a general purpose language and not matrix oriented.
In fact it doesn't have native support for a matrix as such only
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Hello Python Tutor!
I have been using Python for years now, in all kinds of environments, but
I don't really understand the restrictions on slicing.
As described in http://jtauber.com/blog/2005/08/16/python_slice_questions/
and
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-February/368291.ht
