How to remove a column in a numpy array?

Question

Imagine we have a 5x4 matrix. We need to remove only the first dimension. How can we do it with numpy?

array([[  0.,   1.,   2.,   3.],
              


        

Answer 1

The correct way to use delete is to specify index and dimension, eg. remove the 1st (0) column (dimension 1):

In [215]: np.delete(np.arange(20).reshape(5,4),0,1)
Out[215]: 
array([[ 1,  2,  3],
       [ 5,  6,  7],
       [ 9, 10, 11],
       [13, 14, 15],
       [17, 18, 19]])

other expressions that work:

np.arange(20).reshape(5,4)[:,1:]
np.arange(20).reshape(5,4)[:,[1,2,3]]
np.arange(20).reshape(5,4)[:,np.array([False,True,True,True])]