Strange behavior for a 2D list

[Robrecht W. Uyttenhove]

Hello,

I tried out the following code:
y=[range(0,7),range(7,14),range(14,21),range(21,28),range(28,35)][[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13],
[14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20],
[21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27],
[28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34]]

y[1:5:2][::3]

[[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]]

I expected the 2D list:
[[ 7, 10, 13],
[21, 24, 27]]

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob

PS: I used Python 2.7.3

 

[John Gordon]

I tried out the following code:
y=[range(0,7),range(7,14),range(14,21),range(21,28),range(28,35)][[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13],
[14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20],
[21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27],
[28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34]]

y[1:5:2][::3]

[[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]]

I expected the 2D list:
[[ 7, 10, 13],
[21, 24, 27]]

Any ideas?

y is just a list. It happens to be a list of lists, but that doesn't make
it a "2D" list. It's an important distinction.

y[1:5:2] is the contents of y, starting at the second element and selecting
every second element after that:

[[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13], [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27]]

y[1:5:2][::3] is the contents of y[1:5:2], starting at the first element and
selecting every third element after that (and there are only two elements,
so it stops after the first one):

[[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]]

Why were you expecting the other result?