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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/core/fromnumeric.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/fromnumeric.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py index 4608bc6de..69cabb33e 100644 --- a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py +++ b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py @@ -1801,9 +1801,10 @@ def ravel(a, order='C'): Returns ------- y : array_like - y is an array of the same subtype as `a`, with shape ``(a.size,)``. - Note that matrices are special cased for backward compatibility, if `a` - is a matrix, then y is a 1-D ndarray. + y is a contiguous 1-D array of the same subtype as `a`, + with shape ``(a.size,)``. + Note that matrices are special cased for backward compatibility, + if `a` is a matrix, then y is a 1-D ndarray. See Also -------- @@ -1822,7 +1823,8 @@ def ravel(a, order='C'): column-major, Fortran-style index ordering. When a view is desired in as many cases as possible, ``arr.reshape(-1)`` - may be preferable. + may be preferable. However, ``ravel`` supports ``K`` in the optional + ``order`` argument while ``reshape`` does not. Examples -------- |