Evan wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python:
> In matlab I can do the following: > >>> ind = [3,5,7,2,4,7,8,24] > ind = 3 5 7 2 4 7 8 24 >>> ind(1) ans = 3 >>> ind(end) ans = 24 >>> ind([1 end]) ans = 3 24 > > but I can't get the last line in python: > > In [690]: ind = [3,5,7,2,4,7,8,24] > In [691]: ind[0] Out[691]: 3 > In [692]: ind[-1:] Out[692]: [24] > In [693]: ?? > > How do I pull out multiple indices as in matlab? [ind[0], ind[-1]] or if you need something that can be generalised: [ind[i] for i in [0, -1]] so if you have: indexes_of_ind = [0, 2, -1, -2] you can write: [ind[i] for i in indexes_of_ind] Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
