Update doc for np.full

Previous document was not properly documenting the case when `fill_value` is an array_like object.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/numeric.py b/numpy/core/numeric.py
index f18ab6336..5a1cbe9fc 100644
--- a/numpy/core/numeric.py
+++ b/numpy/core/numeric.py
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def full(shape, fill_value, dtype=None, order='C'):
     ----------
     shape : int or sequence of ints
         Shape of the new array, e.g., ``(2, 3)`` or ``2``.
-    fill_value : scalar
+    fill_value : scalar or array_like
         Fill value.
     dtype : data-type, optional
         The desired data-type for the array  The default, None, means
@@ -312,6 +312,10 @@ def full(shape, fill_value, dtype=None, order='C'):
     array([[10, 10],
            [10, 10]])
 
+    >>> np.full((2, 2), [1, 2])
+    array([[1, 2],
+           [1, 2]])
+
     """
     if dtype is None:
         dtype = array(fill_value).dtype