如果你喜欢map-reduce风格的python, itemgetter操作符也会有帮助，而不是列表推导式，为了一点变化!

# tested in 2.4
from operator import itemgetter
def column(matrix,i):
    f = itemgetter(i)
    return map(f,matrix)

M = [range(x,x+5) for x in range(10)]
assert column(M,1) == range(1,11)

另一种使用矩阵的方法

>>> from numpy import matrix
>>> a = [ [1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9] ]
>>> matrix(a).transpose()[1].getA()[0]
array([2, 5, 8])
>>> matrix(a).transpose()[0].getA()[0]
array([1, 4, 7])

我更喜欢下一个提示: 将矩阵命名为matrix_a并使用column_number，例如:

import numpy as np
matrix_a = np.array([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]])
column_number=2

# you can get the row from transposed matrix - it will be a column:
col=matrix_a.transpose()[column_number]

array = [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[13,14,15,16]]

col1 = [val[1] for val in array]
col2 = [val[2] for val in array]
col3 = [val[3] for val in array]
col4 = [val[4] for val in array]
print(col1)
print(col2)
print(col3)
print(col4)

Output:
[1, 5, 9, 13]
[2, 6, 10, 14]
[3, 7, 11, 15]
[4, 8, 12, 16]

如果你在Python中有一个二维数组(不是numpy)，你可以像这样提取所有的列，

data = [
['a', 1, 2], 
['b', 3, 4], 
['c', 5, 6]
]

columns = list(zip(*data))

print("column[0] = {}".format(columns[0]))
print("column[1] = {}".format(columns[1]))
print("column[2] = {}".format(columns[2]))

执行这段代码会得到，

>>> print("column[0] = {}".format(columns[0]))
column[0] = ('a', 'b', 'c')

>>> print("column[1] = {}".format(columns[1]))
column[1] = (1, 3, 5)

>>> print("column[2] = {}".format(columns[2]))
column[2] = (2, 4, 6)

假设我们有nxm矩阵(n行m列)5行4列

matrix = [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[13,14,15,16],[17,18,19,20]]

要在python中提取列，我们可以像这样使用列表推导式

[ [row[i] for row in matrix] for in range(4) ]

你可以用矩阵的列数来替换4。 结果是

,10,14,18,5,9,13,17 [[1], [2], [3,7,11,15,19], [4,8,12,16,20]]