Slice numpy array wth list of wanted rows

Use take():

In [87]: m = np.random.random((6, 2))

In [88]: m
Out[88]: 
array([[ 0.6641412 ,  0.31556053],
       [ 0.11480163,  0.00143887],
       [ 0.4677745 ,  0.43055324],
       [ 0.49749099,  0.15678506],
       [ 0.48024596,  0.65701218],
       [ 0.48952677,  0.97089177]])

In [89]: m.take([0, 2, 5], axis=0)
Out[89]: 
array([[ 0.6641412 ,  0.31556053],
       [ 0.4677745 ,  0.43055324],
       [ 0.48952677,  0.97089177]])

You can pass a list or an array as indexes to any np array.

>>> r = np.random.randint(0,10,(5,5))
>>> r
array([[3, 8, 9, 8, 4],
       [4, 1, 5, 9, 1],
       [3, 6, 8, 8, 0],
       [5, 1, 7, 6, 1],
       [6, 1, 7, 7, 7]])
>>> idx = [0,3,1]
>>> r[idx]
array([[3, 8, 9, 8, 4],
       [5, 1, 7, 6, 1],
       [4, 1, 5, 9, 1]])