numpy.ma.MaskedArray.tobytes¶
- MaskedArray.tobytes(fill_value=None, order='C')[source]¶
Return the array data as a string containing the raw bytes in the array.
The array is filled with a fill value before the string conversion.
New in version 1.9.0.
Parameters: fill_value : scalar, optional
Value used to fill in the masked values. Deafult is None, in which case MaskedArray.fill_value is used.
order : {‘C’,’F’,’A’}, optional
Order of the data item in the copy. Default is ‘C’.
- ‘C’ – C order (row major).
- ‘F’ – Fortran order (column major).
- ‘A’ – Any, current order of array.
- None – Same as ‘A’.
Notes
As for ndarray.tobytes, information about the shape, dtype, etc., but also about fill_value, will be lost.
Examples
>>> x = np.ma.array(np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]]), mask=[[0, 1], [1, 0]]) >>> x.tobytes() '\x01\x00\x00\x00?B\x0f\x00?B\x0f\x00\x04\x00\x00\x00'