How to remove an element from plydata['vertex']

[JACMoutinho]

I was wondering if you could me with something, not really an issue:

I want to delete certain values from a point cloud using plyfile, like the example i have bellow where i want to delete the coordinate with index 567890 so that i can later produce a new ply file without that point.

How would ago about that?

Thank you for your help and have a wonderful weekend.

[dranjan]

The way I would approach this is to operate on the underlying NumPy array using NumPy methods (perhaps numpy.delete) and then reassign the result to the .data attribute, something like:

plydata.elements[0].data = numpy.delete(plydata.elements[0].data, [567890])

I expect that isn't particularly efficient, but in any case the general strategy illustrated here is what I would suggest: get the NumPy array using some_element.data, make the changes you want, and then reassign the result with some_element.data = ....