sub df by row or column

[Wikunia]

I know dataframes is more column focused...
If I have a dataframe df
and then use

df[[1,2,3],:]

it return the first three rows.

If I do:

df[[1,2,3]]

I get the first three columns. This is a bit confusing to me.
If it is more column focused shouldn't it be

df[:,[1,2,3]]

in the first place? I know that would be breaking.

The other variant would be:

df[[1,2,3]]

get the first three rows and

df[[:bla,:blub,:last]]

might return those columns. If I mention an integer it is most of the time the row and not the column which can be retrieved by name.

[ararslan]

The problem here is that using a single index into a DataFrame retrieves columns by index rather than rows, which several folks in #1200 have noted is rather odd. I'm going to close this and further discussion can happen in #1200 should there be anything else to add. Thanks!