Re: numpy question (fairly basic, I think)

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From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> I was trying to change the one-dim array into a two-dim array so
> I could easily retrieve columns. I now use a pandas DataFrame to do that.

Numpy can do that, if I understand what you want correctly,
but it requires an unintuitive trick.

The trick is to index the array with the name of a field,
and *only* the name of the field. For example, the following
gives you a slice containing all the values from the 'v02'
fields of your data:

   array['v02']

Note: Indexing with a field name generally seems to follow
a different set of rules. Some things that you'd think would
work don't, e.g.

    array[:, 'v02']

fails with a rather confusing error message. Also,

    array[0, 'v02']

doesn't work either, and has to be written

    array[0]['v02']

instead.

-- 
Greg

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numpy question (fairly basic, I think) Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-13 21:36 +0000
  Re: numpy question (fairly basic, I think) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-14 10:52 +1100
    Re: numpy question (fairly basic, I think) Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-14 14:31 +0000
      Re: numpy question (fairly basic, I think) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-12-15 11:26 +1300

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