.. _routines.array-creation:

Array creation routines
=======================

.. seealso:: :ref:`Array creation <arrays.creation>`

.. currentmodule:: numpy

Ones and zeros
--------------
.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   empty 
   empty_like 
   eye 
   identity 
   ones 
   ones_like 
   zeros
   zeros_like

From existing data
------------------
.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   array 
   asarray 
   asanyarray
   ascontiguousarray
   asmatrix
   copy
   frombuffer
   fromfile 
   fromfunction 
   fromiter 
   loadtxt

.. _routines.array-creation.rec:

Creating record arrays (:mod:`numpy.rec`)
-----------------------------------------

.. note:: :mod:`numpy.rec` is the preferred alias for :mod:`numpy.core.records`.

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   core.records.array
   core.records.fromarrays
   core.records.fromrecords
   core.records.fromstring
   core.records.fromfile

.. _routines.array-creation.char:

Creating character arrays (:mod:`numpy.char`)
---------------------------------------------

.. note:: :mod:`numpy.char` is the preferred alias for :mod:`numpy.core.defchararray`.

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   core.defchararray.array

Numerical ranges
----------------
.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   arange
   linspace
   logspace
   meshgrid
   mgrid

Building matrices
-----------------
.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   diag
   diagflat
   tri
   tril
   triu
   vander

The Matrix class
----------------
.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated/

   mat
   bmat