See Also -------- asanyarray : Similar function which passes through subclasses. ascontiguousarray : Convert input to a contiguous array. asfarray : Convert input to a floating point ndarray. asfortranarray : Convert input to an ndarray with column-major memory order. asarray_chkfinite : Similar function which checks input for NaNs and Infs. fromiter : Create an array from an iterator. fromfunction : Construct an array by executing a function on grid positions.