[Numpy-discussion] Numpy arrays and slicing comprehension issue

[Jaime Fernández del Río]

The last index is exclusive:
[a:b] means a <= index < b.

On Jul 8, 2017 10:20 AM, <paul.carrico at free.fr> wrote:

>  Hi
>
> Once again I need your help to understand one topic concerning slicing
> topic, or in other word I do not understand how it works in that particular
> (but common) case; I’m trying to reassign the 4 first values in an array:
>
>    - If I use [:3] I’m expecting to have 4 values (index 0 to 3 included)
>    - Ditto with [0:3]
>    - If I use [3:] I have 2 values as expected (indexes 3 and 4)
>
> Both code and results are presented here after, so this way of thinking
> worked so far in other calculations, and it fails here?
>
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Paul
>
> ps : extraction from the doc (https://docs.scipy.org/doc/
> numpy/reference/arrays.indexing.html)
>
> *[... all indices are zero-based ...]*
>
>
>
> *Code*:
>
> x = np.random.rand(5); print("x = ",x);
>
> ## test 1
>
> print("partials =\n %s \nor %s \nor %s" %( x[:3], x[0:3], x[3:]) )
>
> print("x[0] : ",x[0]); print("x[1] : ",x[1]); print("x[2] : ",x[2]);
> print("x[3] : ",x[3])
>
>
>
> ## test 2
>
> y = np.ones(4); print("y = ",y)
>
> x[0:4] = y
>
> print("x final = ",x)
>
>
> *Provide*:
>
> x =  [ 0.39921271  0.07097531  0.37044695  0.28078163  0.11590451]
>
> partials =
>
>  [ 0.39921271  0.07097531  0.37044695]
>
> or [ 0.39921271  0.07097531  0.37044695]
>
> or [ 0.28078163  0.11590451]
>
> x[0] :  0.39921271184
>
> x[1] :  0.0709753133926
>
> x[2] :  0.370446946245
>
> x[3] :  0.280781629
>
> y =  [ 1.  1.  1.  1.]
>
> x final =  [ 1.          1.          1.          1.          0.11590451]
>
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