numpy.core.defchararray.encode — NumPy v1.13 Manual (original) (raw)

numpy.core.defchararray. encode(a, encoding=None, errors=None)[source]

Calls str.encode element-wise.

The set of available codecs comes from the Python standard library, and may be extended at runtime. For more information, see the codecs module.

Parameters: a : array_like of str or unicode encoding : str, optional The name of an encoding errors : str, optional Specifies how to handle encoding errors
Returns: out : ndarray

See also

str.encode

Notes

The type of the result will depend on the encoding specified.