Where can I find documentation for data[:,9]

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-03-11 13:01 PM,  Cal Who wrote:
> data = readdata( 'data/input.dat', delimiter = ',' )
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> input = data[:, :9]#nine data columns
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>
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> Where can I find documentation for the
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> data[:,9]
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> in the code above.
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> Been looking and found many examples but would like to know the definition.

When asking questions like this, it helps *a lot* to provide a complete example, 
not just a snippet. If I weren't already intimately familiar with the library 
you are using, I would have no idea how to help you.

However, I do know that input object is a numpy array, and the syntax you are 
asking about is multidimensional slicing.

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.indexing.html

> I need to skip the first column and then read 9

data[:, 1:10]

> I would also like to print the data in ihe variable "input"

print input

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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