# numpy.ma.is_masked

ma.is_masked(x)

  Determine whether input has masked values.

  Accepts any object as input, but always returns False unless the input is a MaskedArray containing masked values.

  Parameters:
    x array_like

      Array to check for masked values.

  Returns:
    result bool

      True if x is a MaskedArray with masked values, False otherwise.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy.ma as ma
      >>> x = ma.masked_equal([0, 1, 0, 2, 3], 0)
      >>> x
      masked_array(data=[--, 1, --, 2, 3],
                   mask=[ True, False,  True, False, False],
             fill_value=0)
      >>> ma.is_masked(x)
      True
      >>> x = ma.masked_equal([0, 1, 0, 2, 3], 42)
      >>> x
      masked_array(data=[0, 1, 0, 2, 3],
                   mask=False,
             fill_value=42)
      >>> ma.is_masked(x)
      False

  Always returns False if x isn’t a MaskedArray.

      >>> x = [False, True, False]
      >>> ma.is_masked(x)
      False
      >>> x = 'a string'
      >>> ma.is_masked(x)
      False