How can I slice each element of a numpy array of strings?

Question

Numpy has some very useful string operations, which vectorize the usual Python string operations.

Compared to these operation and to pandas.str, the num

Answer 1

To solve this, so far I've been transforming the numpy array to a pandas Series and back. It is not a pretty solution, but it works and it works relatively fast.

a = numpy.array(['hello', 'how', 'are', 'you'])
pandas.Series(a).str[1:3].values
array(['el', 'ow', 're', 'ou'], dtype=object)