Return a copy of self, where masked values are filled with fill_value.
If fill_value is None, self.fill_value is used instead.
Notes
Examples
>>> x = np.ma.array([1,2,3,4,5], mask=[0,0,1,0,1], fill_value=-999)
>>> x.filled()
array([1,2,-999,4,-999])
>>> type(x.filled())
<type 'numpy.ndarray'>