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.. _routines.array-creation:

Array creation routines

.. currentmodule:: mxnet.np

Ones and zeros

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

eye empty full identity ones ones_like zeros zeros_like

.. code::

full_like empty_like

From existing data

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

array copy

.. code::

frombuffer fromfunction fromiter fromstring loadtxt

.. _routines.array-creation.rec:

Creating record arrays (:mod:np.rec)

.. note:: :mod:np.rec is the preferred alias for :mod:np.core.records.

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

.. code::

core.records.array core.records.fromarrays core.records.fromrecords core.records.fromstring core.records.fromfile

.. _routines.array-creation.char:

Creating character arrays (:mod:np.char)

.. note:: :mod:np.char is the preferred alias for :mod:np.core.defchararray.

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

.. code::

core.defchararray.array core.defchararray.asarray

Numerical ranges

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

arange linspace logspace meshgrid

.. code::

geomspace mgrid ogrid

Building matrices

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

tril

.. code::

diag diagflat tri triu vander