Select certain rows (condition met), but only some columns in Python/Numpy

>>> a = np.array([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]])
>>> a
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 11, 12]])

>>> a[a[:,0] > 3] # select rows where first column is greater than 3
array([[ 5,  6,  7,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 11, 12]])

>>> a[a[:,0] > 3][:,np.array([True, True, False, True])] # select columns
array([[ 5,  6,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 12]])

# fancier equivalent of the previous
>>> a[np.ix_(a[:,0] > 3, np.array([True, True, False, True]))]
array([[ 5,  6,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 12]])

For an explanation of the obscure np.ix_(), see https://stackoverflow.com/a/13599843/4323

Finally, we can simplify by giving the list of column numbers instead of the tedious boolean mask:

>>> a[np.ix_(a[:,0] > 3, (0,1,3))]
array([[ 5,  6,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 12]])

This also works.

I = np.array([row[[x for x in range(A.shape[1]) if x != i-1]] for row in A if row[i-1] == i])
print I

Edit: Since indexing starts from 0, so

i-1

should be used.

If you do not want to use boolean positions but the indexes, you can write it this way:

A[:, [0, 2, 3]][A[:, 1] == i]

Going back to your example:

>>> A = np.array([[1,2,3,4],[6,1,3,4],[3,2,5,6]])
>>> print A
[[1 2 3 4]
 [6 1 3 4]
 [3 2 5 6]]
>>> i = 2
>>> print A[:, [0, 2, 3]][A[:, 1] == i]
[[1 3 4]
 [3 5 6]]

Seriously,

>>> a=np.array([[1,2,3], [1,3,4], [2,2,5]])
>>> a[a[:,0]==1][:,[0,1]]
array([[1, 2],
       [1, 3]])
>>>