numpy asarray

    See Also
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    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.