Learning pandas

Creating NumPy arrays and performing basic array operations

A NumPy array can be created using multiple techniques. The following code creates a new NumPy array object from a Python list:

In [4]:
   # a simple array
   a1 = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
   a1

Out[4]:
   array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

In [5]:
   # what is its type?
   type(a1)

Out[5]:
   numpy.ndarray

In [6]:
   # how many elements?
   np.size(a1)

Out[6]:
   5

In NumPy, n-dimensional arrays are denoted as ndarray, and this one contains five elements, as is reported by the np.size() function.

NumPy arrays must have all of their elements of the same type. If you specify different types in the list, NumPy will try to coerce all the items to the same type. The following code example demonstrates using integer and ...