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Numerical Computing with Python
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Numerical Computing with Python

by Pratap Dangeti, Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
682 pages
18h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Numpy array

Very often, we deal with more complex data. If you need a matrix with multiple columns or want to perform mathematical operations over all elements in a collection, then numpy is for you:

import numpy as np

We abbreviated numpy to np by convention, keeping our code succinct.

np.array() converts a supported data type, a list in this case, into a Numpy array. To produce a numpy array from our evens list, we do the following:

np.array(evens)
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