numpy.core.defchararray.chararray.flatten — NumPy v1.11 Manual (original) (raw)

chararray.flatten(order='C')

Return a copy of the array collapsed into one dimension.

Parameters: order : {‘C’, ‘F’, ‘A’, ‘K’}, optional ‘C’ means to flatten in row-major (C-style) order. ‘F’ means to flatten in column-major (Fortran- style) order. ‘A’ means to flatten in column-major order if a is Fortran contiguous in memory, row-major order otherwise. ‘K’ means to flatten_a_ in the order the elements occur in memory. The default is ‘C’.
Returns: y : ndarray A copy of the input array, flattened to one dimension.

See also

ravel

Return a flattened array.

flat

A 1-D flat iterator over the array.

Examples

a = np.array([[1,2], [3,4]]) a.flatten() array([1, 2, 3, 4]) a.flatten('F') array([1, 3, 2, 4])