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# numpy.matrix.flatten

`matrix.``flatten`(order='C')

  Return a flattened copy of the matrix.

  All N elements of the matrix are placed into a single row.

  Parameters: | order : {‘C’, ‘F’, ‘A’}, optional Whether to flatten in C (row-major), Fortran (column-major) order, or preserve the C/Fortran ordering from m. The default is ‘C’.
  Returns: | y : matrix A copy of the matrix, flattened to a (1, N) matrix where N is the number of elements in the original matrix.

  See also

  `ravel`
    Return a flattened array.
  `flat`
    A 1-D flat iterator over the matrix.

  Examples

      >>> m = np.matrix([[1,2], [3,4]])
      >>> m.flatten()
      matrix([[1, 2, 3, 4]])
      >>> m.flatten('F')
      matrix([[1, 3, 2, 4]])