[Tutor] a code question, but don't know question's name

[Happy Deer]

I am writing a function getdata for other people, and I want others can use
the function as follows.

var1,var2, var3=getdata(..., ['var1','var2','var3'],...)

If I can not return data column by column, I can not get the above, right?

On 10/7/07, Eric Brunson <brunson at brunson.com> wrote:
>
> Happy Deer wrote:
> > Thank all for the discussion.
> > Maybe I can separate my question into two.
> >
> > First, I have experience in Matlab, where I can use "eval". I wonder
> > whether someone knows about it.
> >
> > Second, if I just want to return data[:,1], ...data[:,-1] separately
> > without knowing ahead how many columns data has. What should I do?
>
> I'm still unsure if you even need extended slicing.
>
> Given:
>
> data = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
>
> What do you expect data[:,1] and data[:,-1] to return?
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/7/07, *Kent Johnson* <kent37 at tds.net <mailto:kent37 at tds.net>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Kent Johnson wrote:
> >     > Alan Gauld wrote:
> >     >> "Kent Johnson" <kent37 at tds.net <mailto:kent37 at tds.net>> wrote
> >     >>
> >     >>>> The notation data[;,0] doesn't make sense and is an error in
> >     >>>> Python.
> >     >>> [:,0] is an extended slice, not an error:
> >     >>> http://docs.python.org/ref/slicings.html
> >
> >     We discussed this quite a bit last July:
> >     http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2007-July/055814.html
> >
> >     Kent
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