nparray.array (function)

def array(value, unit=None)

This is an nparray wrapper around the numpy function. The numpy documentation is included below. Currently most kwargs should be accepted with the exception of 'dtype'. The returned object should act exactly like the numpy array itself, but with several extra helpful methods and attributes. Call help on the resulting object for more information.

If you have astropy installed, units are supported by passing unit=astropy.unit to the instantiation functions or by multiplying an array with a unit object.

Arguments

• value (array or list): array or list of values.
• unit (astropy unit or string, optional, default=None): unit corresponding to the passed values.

Returns

• Array

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numpy documentation for underlying function:

array(object, dtype=None, copy=True, order='K', subok=False, ndmin=0)

Create an array.

Parameters
----------
object : array_like
    An array, any object exposing the array interface, an object whose
    __array__ method returns an array, or any (nested) sequence.
dtype : data-type, optional
    The desired data-type for the array.  If not given, then the type will
    be determined as the minimum type required to hold the objects in the
    sequence.  This argument can only be used to 'upcast' the array.  For
    downcasting, use the .astype(t) method.
copy : bool, optional
    If true (default), then the object is copied.  Otherwise, a copy will
    only be made if __array__ returns a copy, if obj is a nested sequence,
    or if a copy is needed to satisfy any of the other requirements
    (`dtype`, `order`, etc.).
order : {'K', 'A', 'C', 'F'}, optional
    Specify the memory layout of the array. If object is not an array, the
    newly created array will be in C order (row major) unless 'F' is
    specified, in which case it will be in Fortran order (column major).
    If object is an array the following holds.

    ===== ========= ===================================================
    order  no copy                     copy=True
    ===== ========= ===================================================
    'K'   unchanged F & C order preserved, otherwise most similar order
    'A'   unchanged F order if input is F and not C, otherwise C order
    'C'   C order   C order
    'F'   F order   F order
    ===== ========= ===================================================

    When ``copy=False`` and a copy is made for other reasons, the result is
    the same as if ``copy=True``, with some exceptions for `A`, see the
    Notes section. The default order is 'K'.
subok : bool, optional
    If True, then sub-classes will be passed-through, otherwise
    the returned array will be forced to be a base-class array (default).
ndmin : int, optional
    Specifies the minimum number of dimensions that the resulting
    array should have.  Ones will be pre-pended to the shape as
    needed to meet this requirement.

Returns
-------
out : ndarray
    An array object satisfying the specified requirements.

See Also
--------
empty_like : Return an empty array with shape and type of input.
ones_like : Return an array of ones with shape and type of input.
zeros_like : Return an array of zeros with shape and type of input.
full_like : Return a new array with shape of input filled with value.
empty : Return a new uninitialized array.
ones : Return a new array setting values to one.
zeros : Return a new array setting values to zero.
full : Return a new array of given shape filled with value.


Notes
-----
When order is 'A' and `object` is an array in neither 'C' nor 'F' order,
and a copy is forced by a change in dtype, then the order of the result is
not necessarily 'C' as expected. This is likely a bug.

Examples
--------
>>> np.array([1, 2, 3])
array([1, 2, 3])

Upcasting:

>>> np.array([1, 2, 3.0])
array([ 1.,  2.,  3.])

More than one dimension:

>>> np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
array([[1, 2],
       [3, 4]])

Minimum dimensions 2:

>>> np.array([1, 2, 3], ndmin=2)
array([[1, 2, 3]])

Type provided:

>>> np.array([1, 2, 3], dtype=complex)
array([ 1.+0.j,  2.+0.j,  3.+0.j])

Data-type consisting of more than one element:

>>> x = np.array([(1,2),(3,4)],dtype=[('a','<i4'),('b','<i4')])
>>> x['a']
array([1, 3])

Creating an array from sub-classes:

>>> np.array(np.mat('1 2; 3 4'))
array([[1, 2],
       [3, 4]])

>>> np.array(np.mat('1 2; 3 4'), subok=True)
matrix([[1, 2],
        [3, 4]])