How to slice range of array along a (a-priori unknown) axis?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

This should work.

def el_remove_bcells(var, axis):
    if axis == 0:
       return var[1:-1]
    else:
      return eval("var[%s1:-1]" % ":," * axis)

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch