add .abs() as a method on the array object

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/ma.py b/numpy/core/ma.py
index 2e2d3f8ec..495764ae8 100644
--- a/numpy/core/ma.py
+++ b/numpy/core/ma.py
@@ -2144,6 +2144,7 @@ def _m(f):
     return MethodType(f, None, array)
 def not_implemented(*args, **kwds):
     raise NotImplementedError, "not yet implemented for numpy.ma arrays"
+array.abs = array.__abs__
 array.all = _m(alltrue)
 array.any = _m(sometrue)
 array.argmax = _m(argmax)