I have an array:
a = [1, 3, 5, 7, 29 ... 5030, 6000]
This array gets created from a previous process, and the length of the array could be different (it is depending on user input).
I also have an array:
b = [3, 15, 67, 78, 138]
(Which could also be completely different)
I want to use the array b to slice the array a into multiple arrays.
More specifically, I want the result arrays to be:
array1 = a[:3]
array2 = a[3:15]
...
arrayn = a[138:]
Where n = len(b).
My first thought was to create a 2D array slices with dimension (len(b), something). However we don't know this something beforehand so I assigned it the value len(a) as that is the maximum amount of numbers that it could contain.
I have this code:
slices = np.zeros((len(b), len(a)))
for i in range(1, len(b)):
slices[i] = a[b[i-1]:b[i]]
But I get this error:
ValueError: could not broadcast input array from shape (518) into shape (2253412)