N-D version of itertools.combinations in numpy

Question

I would like to implement itertools.combinations for numpy. Based on this discussion, I have a function that works for 1D input:

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Answer 1

You can use itertools.combinations() to create the index array, and then use NumPy's fancy indexing:

import numpy as np
from itertools import combinations, chain
from scipy.special import comb

def comb_index(n, k):
    count = comb(n, k, exact=True)
    index = np.fromiter(chain.from_iterable(combinations(range(n), k)), 
                        int, count=count*k)
    return index.reshape(-1, k)

data = np.array([[1,2,3,4,5],[10,11,12,13,14]])

idx = comb_index(5, 3)
print(data[:, idx])

output:

[[[ 1  2  3]
  [ 1  2  4]
  [ 1  2  5]
  [ 1  3  4]
  [ 1  3  5]
  [ 1  4  5]
  [ 2  3  4]
  [ 2  3  5]
  [ 2  4  5]
  [ 3  4  5]]

 [[10 11 12]
  [10 11 13]
  [10 11 14]
  [10 12 13]
  [10 12 14]
  [10 13 14]
  [11 12 13]
  [11 12 14]
  [11 13 14]
  [12 13 14]]]