ma.getdata(a, subok=True)
Return the data of a masked array as an ndarray.
Return the data of a (if any) as an ndarray if a is a MaskedArray, else return a as an ndarray or subclass (depending on subok) if not.
Parameters:aarray_likeInput MaskedArray, alternatively an ndarray or a subclass thereof.
subokboolWhether to force the output to be a pure ndarray (False) or to return a subclass of ndarray if appropriate (True, default).
See also
Return the mask of a masked array, or nomask.
Return the mask of a masked array, or full array of False.
Examples
>>> importnumpyasnp>>> importnumpy.maasma>>> a=ma.masked_equal([[1,2],[3,4]],2)>>> amasked_array( data=[[1, --], [3, 4]], mask=[[False, True], [False, False]], fill_value=2)>>> ma.getdata(a)array([[1, 2], [3, 4]])Equivalently use the MaskedArraydata attribute.
>>> a.dataarray([[1, 2], [3, 4]])