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Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud
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Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel
May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
Pearson
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7.2 Creating arrays from Existing Data

The NumPy documentation recommends importing the numpy module as np so that you can access its members with "np.":

In [1]: import numpy as np

The numpy module provides various functions for creating arrays. Here we use the array function, which receives as an argument an array or other collection of elements and returns a new array containing the argument’s elements. Let’s pass a list:

In [2]: numbers = np.array([2, 3, 5, 7, 11])

The array function copies its argument’s contents into the array. Let’s look at the type of object that function array returns and display its contents:

In [3]: type(numbers)
Out[3]: numpy.ndarray

In [4]: numbers
Out[4]: array([ 2, 3, 5, 7, 11])

Note that the type is numpy.ndarray ...

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