# numpy.ma.asanyarray

ma.asanyarray(a, dtype=None)

  Convert the input to a masked array, conserving subclasses.

  If a is a subclass of `MaskedArray`, its class is conserved. No copy is performed if the input is already an `ndarray`.

  Parameters:
    a array_like

      Input data, in any form that can be converted to an array.

    dtype dtype, optional

      By default, the data-type is inferred from the input data.

    order{‘C’, ‘F’}, optional

      Whether to use row-major (‘C’) or column-major (‘FORTRAN’) memory representation. Default is ‘C’.

  Returns:
    out MaskedArray

      MaskedArray interpretation of a.

  See also

  `asarray`

    Similar to `asanyarray`, but does not conserve subclass.

  Examples

      >>> x = np.arange(10.).reshape(2, 5)
      >>> x
      array([[0., 1., 2., 3., 4.],
             [5., 6., 7., 8., 9.]])
      >>> np.ma.asanyarray(x)
      masked_array(
        data=[[0., 1., 2., 3., 4.],
              [5., 6., 7., 8., 9.]],
        mask=False,
        fill_value=1e+20)
      >>> type(np.ma.asanyarray(x))
      <class 'numpy.ma.core.MaskedArray'>