What is the difference between ndarray and array in NumPy?

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Solution

`numpy.array` is just a convenience function to create an `ndarray`; it is not a class itself.

You can also create an array using `numpy.ndarray`, but it is not the recommended way. From the docstring of `numpy.ndarray`:

Arrays should be constructed using `array`, `zeros` or `empty` ... The parameters given here refer to a low-level method (`ndarray(...)`) for instantiating an array.

Most of the meat of the implementation is in C code, here in multiarray, but you can start looking at the ndarray interfaces here:

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/numeric.py

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