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To access particular columns of a 2D Numpy array, use the [] syntax.
Suppose we have the following 2D Numpy array:
x = np.array([[1,2,3], [4,5,6]])x
array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
Accessing the first column
x[:,0]
array([1, 4])
The code seems cryptic, so let's break it down. The syntax of [] is as follows:
[* the_rows_you_want *, * the_columns_you_want *]
In our code snippet, we used : to denote the rows that we want. You can interpret this in the way you interpret Python's slicing syntax for lists; : alone without any numbers means "give me all the rows". This means that x[:,0] gives us all the rows of the 0th column, which in essence, is just the 0th column.
Accessing the first two columns
For your reference, we show the our 2D Numpy array x here again:
array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
To access the first two columns:
x[:,0:2]
array([[1, 2], [4, 5]])
Note that the endpoint 2 is exclusive. You could write :2 instead of 0:2.
Accessing the last column
x[:,-1]
array([3, 6])
Accessing the last two columns
x[:,-2:]
array([[2, 3], [5, 6]])
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