.. _routines.array-creation:

Array creation routines

.. seealso:: :ref:Array creation <arrays.creation>

.. currentmodule:: numpy

From shape or value

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empty empty_like eye identity ones ones_like zeros zeros_like full full_like

From existing data

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array asarray asanyarray ascontiguousarray asmatrix astype copy frombuffer from_dlpack fromfile fromfunction fromiter fromstring loadtxt

.. _routines.array-creation.rec:

Creating record arrays

.. note:: Please refer to :ref:arrays.classes.rec for record arrays.

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rec.array rec.fromarrays rec.fromrecords rec.fromstring rec.fromfile

.. _routines.array-creation.char:

Creating character arrays (:mod:numpy.char)

.. note:: :mod:numpy.char is used to create character arrays.

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char.array char.asarray

Numerical ranges

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arange linspace logspace geomspace meshgrid mgrid ogrid

Building matrices

.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/

diag diagflat tri tril triu vander

The matrix class

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bmat