List comprehensions can process Matrixes.
M = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], # from w w w . j a va 2s. co m [7, 8, 9]] print( M[1] ) # Row 2 print( M[1][2] ) # Row 2, item 3 d=[row[1] for row in M] # Column 2 print( d ) d=[M[row][1] for row in (0, 1, 2)] # Using offsets print( d )