numpy.radians — NumPy v1.11 Manual (original) (raw)

numpy.radians(_x_[, _out_]) = <ufunc 'radians'>

Convert angles from degrees to radians.

Parameters: x : array_like Input array in degrees. out : ndarray, optional Output array of same shape as x.
Returns: y : ndarray The corresponding radian values.

See also

deg2rad

equivalent function

Examples

Convert a degree array to radians

deg = np.arange(12.) * 30. np.radians(deg) array([ 0. , 0.52359878, 1.04719755, 1.57079633, 2.0943951 , 2.61799388, 3.14159265, 3.66519143, 4.1887902 , 4.71238898, 5.23598776, 5.75958653])

out = np.zeros((deg.shape)) ret = np.radians(deg, out) ret is out True