To index the middle points of a numpy array, you can do this:
x = np.arange(10)
middle = x[len(x)/4:len(x)*3/4]
Is there a shorthand for indexing the middle of the array? e.g., the n or 2n elements closes to len(x)/2? Is there a nice n-dimensional version of this?
Late, but for everyone else running into this issue:
A much smoother way is to use numpy's take or put.
To address the middle of an array you can use put to index an n-dimensional array with a single index. Same for getting values from an array with take
Assuming your array has an odd number of elements, the middle of the array will be at half of it's size. By using an integer division (// instead of /) you won't get any problems here.
import numpy as np
arr = np.array([[0, 1, 2],
[3, 4, 5],
[6, 7, 8]])
# put a value to the center
np.put(arr, arr.size // 2, 999)
print(arr)
# take a value from the center
center = np.take(arr, arr.size // 2)
print(center)
as cge said, the simplest way is by turning it into a lambda function, like so:
x = np.arange(10)
middle = lambda x: x[len(x)/4:len(x)*3/4]
or the n-dimensional way is:
middle = lambda x: x[[slice(np.floor(d/4.),np.ceil(3*d/4.)) for d in x.shape]]
np.fft.fftshiftwhich shifts the array to place the middle at index 0.x = np.concatenate([np.fftshift[:n],np.fftshift[-n:]])or similar.mid = lambda x: x[len(x)/4:len(x)*3/4]) would be the simplest solution.mid = lambda x: x[[slice(np.floor(d/4.),np.ceil(3*d/4.)) for d in x.shape]]