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NumPy Array Shape

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•The shape of an array is the number of elements in each dimension.
•NumPy arrays have an attribute called shape that returns a tuple with each index having the number of corresponding elements.
•Integers at every index tells about the number of elements the corresponding dimension has.

Shape of an Array

The shape of an array is the number of elements in each dimension.

NumPy arrays have an attribute called shape that returns a tuple with each index having the number of corresponding elements.

python

import numpy as nparr = np.array([[1, 2, 3, 4], 
  [5, 6, 7, 8]])
print(arr.shape)

The example above returns (2, 4), which means that the array has 2 dimensions, where the first dimension has 2 elements and the second has 4.

python

import numpy as nparr = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4], ndmin=5)print(arr)
  print('shape of array :', arr.shape)

Integers at every index tells about the number of elements the corresponding dimension has.

In the example above at index-4 we have value 4, so we can say that 5th ( 4 + 1 th) dimension has 4 elements.

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