 without fancy indexing, this is equivalent to the following use
    of `ndindex`, which sets each of ``ii``, ``jj``, and ``kk`` to a tuple of
    indices::

        Ni, Nk = a.shape[:axis], a.shape[axis+1:]
        Nj = indices.shape
        for ii in ndindex(Ni):
            for jj in ndindex(Nj):
                for kk in ndindex(Nk):
                    out[ii + jj + kk] = a[ii + (indices[jj],) + kk]

    Parameters
    ----------
    a : array_like (Ni..., M, Nk...)
        The source array.
    indices : array_like (Nj...)
        The indices of the values to extract.

        .. versionadded:: 1.8.0

        Also allow scalars for indices.
    axis : int, optional
        The axis over which to select values. By default, the flattened
        input array is used.
    out : ndarray, optional (Ni..., Nj..., Nk...)
        If provided, the result will be placed in this array. It should
        be of the appropriate shape and dtype. Note that `out` is always
        buffered if `mode='raise'`; use other modes for better performance.
    mode : {'raise', 'wrap', 'clip'}, optional
        Specifies how out-of-bounds indices will behave.

        * 'raise' -- raise an error (default)
        * 'wrap' -- wrap around
        * 'clip' -- clip to the range

        'clip' mode means that all indices that are too large are replaced
        by the index that addresses the last element along that axis. Note
        that this disables indexing with negative numbers.

    Returns
    -------
    out : ndarray (Ni..., Nj..., Nk...)
        The returned array has the same type as `a`.

    See Also
    --------
    compress : Take elements using a boolean mask
    ndarray.take : equivalent method
    take_along_axis : Take elements by matching the array and the index arrays

    Notes
    -----

    By eliminating the inner loop in the description above, and using `s_` to
    build simple slice objects, `take` can be expressed  in terms of applying
    fancy indexing to each 1-d slice::

        Ni, Nk = a.shape[:axis], a.shape[axis+1:]
        for ii in ndindex(Ni):
            for kk in ndindex(Nj):
                out[ii + s_[...,] + kk] = a[ii + s_[:,] + kk][indices]

    For this reason, it is equivalent to (but faster than) the following use
    of `apply_along_axis`::

        out = np.apply_along_axis(lambda a_1d: a_1d[indices], axis, a)

    Examples
    --------
    >>> a = [4, 3, 5, 7, 6, 8]
    >>> indices = [0, 1, 4]
    >>> np.take(a, indices)
    array([4, 3, 6])

    In this example if `a` is an ndarray, "fancy" indexing can be used.

    >>> a = np.array(a)
    >>> a[indices]
    array([4, 3, 6])

    If `indices` is not one dimensional, the output also has these dimensions.

    >>> np.take(a, [[0, 1], [2, 3]])
    array([[4, 3],
           [5, 7]])
    r8