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-rw-r--r--numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py5
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diff --git a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py
index 33e062803..5c16827ed 100644
--- a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py
+++ b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py
@@ -4126,6 +4126,11 @@ add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'ndarray', ('view',
New view of array with the same data.
+ .. note::
+ Passing None for ``dtype`` is different from omitting the parameter,
+ since the former invokes ``dtype(None)`` which is an alias for
+ ``dtype('float_')``.
+
Parameters
----------
dtype : data-type or ndarray sub-class, optional