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| author | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2016-01-04 07:38:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2016-01-04 07:38:23 -0700 |
| commit | 2fb2b66aa459d30120b9c2abd98c736cbf853cc0 (patch) | |
| tree | c70efdcaf8654ed676e6471243264094c71e3015 | |
| parent | b8fef84a5b505cec9312d606c6639e35269d50f3 (diff) | |
| parent | 4d129a4cc72d0d86d666545890cf010db27fcd8e (diff) | |
| download | numpy-2fb2b66aa459d30120b9c2abd98c736cbf853cc0.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #6920 from gfyoung/filled_documentation
DOC: Fix documentation on MaskedArray.filled
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/ma/core.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/ma/core.py b/numpy/ma/core.py index de716a669..9b0b1cc79 100644 --- a/numpy/ma/core.py +++ b/numpy/ma/core.py @@ -3526,6 +3526,8 @@ class MaskedArray(ndarray): def filled(self, fill_value=None): """ Return a copy of self, with masked values filled with a given value. + **However**, if there are no masked values to fill, self will be + returned instead as an ndarray. Parameters ---------- @@ -3537,7 +3539,9 @@ class MaskedArray(ndarray): ------- filled_array : ndarray A copy of ``self`` with invalid entries replaced by *fill_value* - (be it the function argument or the attribute of ``self``. + (be it the function argument or the attribute of ``self``), or + ``self`` itself as an ndarray if there are no invalid entries to + be replaced. Notes ----- |