numpy.asfortranarray — NumPy v1.13 Manual (original) (raw)

numpy. asfortranarray(a, dtype=None)[source]

Return an array laid out in Fortran order in memory.

Parameters: a : array_like Input array. dtype : str or dtype object, optional By default, the data-type is inferred from the input data.
Returns: out : ndarray The input a in Fortran, or column-major, order.

See also

ascontiguousarray

Convert input to a contiguous (C order) array.

asanyarray

Convert input to an ndarray with either row or column-major memory order.

require

Return an ndarray that satisfies requirements.

ndarray.flags

Information about the memory layout of the array.

Examples

x = np.arange(6).reshape(2,3) y = np.asfortranarray(x) x.flags['F_CONTIGUOUS'] False y.flags['F_CONTIGUOUS'] True