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# numpy.array

`numpy.``array`(object, dtype=None, copy=True, order='K', subok=False, ndmin=0)

  Create an array.

  > Parameters: | object : array_like An array, any object exposing the array interface, an object whose __array__ method returns an array, or any (nested) sequence. dtype : data-type, optional The desired data-type for the array. If not given, then the type will be determined as the minimum type required to hold the objects in the sequence. This argument can only be used to ‘upcast’ the array. For downcasting, use the .astype(t) method. copy : bool, optional If true (default), then the object is copied. Otherwise, a copy will only be made if __array__ returns a copy, if obj is a nested sequence, or if a copy is needed to satisfy any of the other requirements (`dtype`, order, etc.). order : {‘K’, ‘A’, ‘C’, ‘F’}, optional Specify the memory layout of the array. If object is not an array, the newly created array will be in C order (row major) unless ‘F’ is specified, in which case it will be in Fortran order (column major). If object is an array the following holds.
  > order | no copy | copy=True
  > --- | --- | ---
  > ‘K’ | unchanged | F & C order preserved, otherwise most similar order
  > ‘A’ | unchanged | F order if input is F and not C, otherwise C order
  > ‘C’ | C order | C order
  > ‘F’ | F order | F order
  When `copy=False` and a copy is made for other reasons, the result is the same as if `copy=True`, with some exceptions for A, see the Notes section. The default order is ‘K’. subok : bool, optional If True, then sub-classes will be passed-through, otherwise the returned array will be forced to be a base-class array (default). ndmin : int, optional Specifies the minimum number of dimensions that the resulting array should have. Ones will be pre-pended to the shape as needed to meet this requirement.
  Returns: | out : ndarray An array object satisfying the specified requirements.

  See also

  `empty`, `empty_like`, `zeros`, `zeros_like`, `ones`, `ones_like`, `full`, `full_like`

  Notes

  When order is ‘A’ and `object` is an array in neither ‘C’ nor ‘F’ order, and a copy is forced by a change in dtype, then the order of the result is not necessarily ‘C’ as expected. This is likely a bug.

  Examples

      >>> np.array([1, 2, 3])
      array([1, 2, 3])

  Upcasting:

      >>> np.array([1, 2, 3.0])
      array([ 1.,  2.,  3.])

  More than one dimension:

      >>> np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
      array([[1, 2],
             [3, 4]])

  Minimum dimensions 2:

      >>> np.array([1, 2, 3], ndmin=2)
      array([[1, 2, 3]])

  Type provided:

      >>> np.array([1, 2, 3], dtype=complex)
      array([ 1.+0.j,  2.+0.j,  3.+0.j])

  Data-type consisting of more than one element:

      >>> x = np.array([(1,2),(3,4)],dtype=[('a','<i4'),('b','<i4')])
      >>> x['a']
      array([1, 3])

  Creating an array from sub-classes:

      >>> np.array(np.mat('1 2; 3 4'))
      array([[1, 2],
             [3, 4]])

      >>> np.array(np.mat('1 2; 3 4'), subok=True)
      matrix([[1, 2],
              [3, 4]])