Fix asfarray to return an array instead of a matrix.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/lib/tests/test_type_check.py b/numpy/lib/tests/test_type_check.py
index 8b990c57e..a89d6ce7f 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/tests/test_type_check.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/tests/test_type_check.py
@@ -270,5 +270,11 @@ class test_real_if_close(NumpyTestCase):
         b = real_if_close(a+1e-7j,tol=1e-6)
         assert_all(isrealobj(b))
 
+class test_array_conversion(NumpyTestCase):
+    def check_asfarray(self):
+        a = asfarray(array([1,2,3]))
+        assert_equal(a.__class__,ndarray)
+        assert issubdtype(a.dtype,float)
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     NumpyTest().run()
diff --git a/numpy/lib/type_check.py b/numpy/lib/type_check.py
index 8e10ac2b5..60c84e335 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/type_check.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/type_check.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def asfarray(a, dtype=_nx.float_):
     dtype = _nx.obj2sctype(dtype)
     if not issubclass(dtype, _nx.inexact):
         dtype = _nx.float_
-    return asanyarray(a,dtype=dtype)
+    return asarray(a,dtype=dtype)
 
 def real(val):
     """Return the real part of val.