Extracting specific columns in numpy array

Question

This is an easy question but say I have an MxN matrix. All I want to do is extract specific columns and store them in another numpy array but I get invalid syntax errors. He

Answer 1

Just:

>>> m = np.matrix(np.random.random((5, 5)))
>>> m
matrix([[0.91074101, 0.65999332, 0.69774588, 0.007355  , 0.33025395],
        [0.11078742, 0.67463754, 0.43158254, 0.95367876, 0.85926405],
        [0.98665185, 0.86431513, 0.12153138, 0.73006437, 0.13404811],
        [0.24602225, 0.66139215, 0.08400288, 0.56769924, 0.47974697],
        [0.25345299, 0.76385882, 0.11002419, 0.2509888 , 0.06312359]])
>>> m[:,[1, 2]]
matrix([[0.65999332, 0.69774588],
        [0.67463754, 0.43158254],
        [0.86431513, 0.12153138],
        [0.66139215, 0.08400288],
        [0.76385882, 0.11002419]])

The columns need not to be in order:

>>> m[:,[2, 1, 3]]
matrix([[0.69774588, 0.65999332, 0.007355  ],
        [0.43158254, 0.67463754, 0.95367876],
        [0.12153138, 0.86431513, 0.73006437],
        [0.08400288, 0.66139215, 0.56769924],
        [0.11002419, 0.76385882, 0.2509888 ]])