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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py index 0225d12b9..2396437c1 100644 --- a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py +++ b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py @@ -3953,13 +3953,23 @@ add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'ndarray', ('tolist', Examples -------- - For a 1D array, ``a.tolist()`` is almost the same as ``list(a)``: + For a 1D array, ``a.tolist()`` is almost the same as ``list(a)``, except that it changes numpy scalars to Python scalars: - >>> a = np.array([1, 2]) - >>> list(a) + >>> a = np.uint32([1, 2]) + >>> a_list = list(a) + >>> a_list [1, 2] - >>> a.tolist() + >>> type(a_list) + <class 'list'> + >>> type(a_list[0]) + <class 'numpy.uint32'> + >>> a_tolist = a.tolist() + >>> a_tolist [1, 2] + >>> type(a_tolist) + <class 'list'> + >>> type(a_tolist[0]) + <class 'int'> However, for a 2D array, ``tolist`` applies recursively: |