Subject: ?Numpy: number of elements in an array?

[Chris Barker]

Norman Shelley wrote:
> In Numpy how does one get the number of elements in an array?
> 
> This seems to do it
> reduce(mul, a.shape, 1)

A little simpler:

product(a.shape)

or:

len(a.flat)

 > but shouldn't there be a straight forward, function/method to do it?

maybe, but it is probably pretty rare to want to know the number of
elements without needing to know the shape.

-Chris

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