Find List Elements When List Indices is a List – Python Tutorial

Look at this example:

import numpy as np

lx = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
ids = [0, 2, 3, 1, 2]

print(lx[ids])

Run this code, you will get this error:

How to get list elements when indices is a list?

Here we will introduce you two methods.

Method 1:

Look at this code:

y1 = [lx[i] for i in ids]
print(y1)

Run this code, we will get:

[1, 3, 4, 2, 3]

Method 2:

We can convert a numpy array to find elements.

y2 = np.array(lx)
print(y2[ids])

Run this code, we will get these values:

[1 3 4 2 3]