How do you extract a column from a multi-dimensional array?

Question

Does anybody know how to extract a column from a multi-dimensional array in Python?

Answer 1

I think you want to extract a column from an array such as an array below

import numpy as np
A = np.array([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]])

Now if you want to get the third column in the format

D=array[[3],
[7],
[11]]

Then you need to first make the array a matrix

B=np.asmatrix(A)
C=B[:,2]
D=asarray(C)

And now you can do element wise calculations much like you would do in excel.