dask.array.utils.meta_from_array

dask.array.utils.meta_from_array

dask.array.utils.meta_from_array(x, ndim=None, dtype=None)[source]

Normalize an array to appropriate meta object

Parameters
x: array-like, callable

Either an object that looks sufficiently like a Numpy array, or a callable that accepts shape and dtype keywords

ndim: int

Number of dimensions of the array

dtype: Numpy dtype

A valid input for np.dtype

Returns
array-like with zero elements of the correct dtype