I know that I can index into a list of lists like this: a=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]] a[0][2]=3 a[2][0]=7
but when I try to use fancy indexing to select the first item in each list I get: a[0][:]=[1,2,3] a[:][0]=[1,2,3] Why is this and is there a way to select [1,4,7]? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list