Use numpy.delete() – returns a new array with sub-arrays along an axis deleted
numpy.delete(a, index)
For your specific question:
import numpy as np
a = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
index = [2, 3, 6]
new_a = np.delete(a, index)
print(new_a) #Prints `[1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9]`
Note that numpy.delete() returns a new array since array scalars are immutable, similar to strings in Python, so each time a change is made to it, a new object is created. I.e., to quote the delete() docs:
“A copy of arr with the elements specified by obj removed. Note that
delete does not occur in-place…”
If the code I post has output, it is the result of running the code.
There is a numpy built-in function to help with that.
import numpy as np
>>> a = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
>>> b = np.array([3,4,7])
>>> c = np.setdiff1d(a,b)
>>> c
array([1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9])