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

numpy.core.defchararray.lower(a)[source]

Return an array with the elements converted to lowercase.

Call str.lower element-wise.

For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.

Parameters: a : array_like, {str, unicode} Input array.
Returns: out : ndarray, {str, unicode} Output array of str or unicode, depending on input type

Examples

c = np.array(['A1B C', '1BCA', 'BCA1']); c array(['A1B C', '1BCA', 'BCA1'], dtype='|S5') np.char.lower(c) array(['a1b c', '1bca', 'bca1'], dtype='|S5')