I was growing confused during the development of a small Python script involving matrix operations, so I fired up a shell to play around with a toy example and develop a bet
Imagine you have the following
>> A = np.array([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]])
If you want to get the second column value, use the following:
>> A.T[1] array([ 2, 6, 10])