From 489d23cd0f08de8890a65dcdb5caccdb8030c646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alex <argriffi@ncsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:26:30 -0400
Subject: DOC: clarify that matrix.ravel only copies if necessary; this is
 already tested

---
 numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py')

diff --git a/numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py b/numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py
index 51903e258..752bfdae5 100644
--- a/numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py
+++ b/numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py
@@ -952,8 +952,9 @@ class matrix(N.ndarray):
         Returns
         -------
         ret : matrix
-            A copy of the matrix, flattened to a `(1, N)` matrix where `N`
+            Return the matrix flattened to shape `(1, N)` where `N`
             is the number of elements in the original matrix.
+            A copy is made only if necessary.
 
         See Also
         --------
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