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# numpy.count_nonzero

numpy.count_nonzero(a, axis=None, *, keepdims=False)

  Counts the number of non-zero values in the array `a`.

  The word “non-zero” is in reference to the Python 2.x built-in method `__nonzero__()` (renamed `__bool__()` in Python 3.x) of Python objects that tests an object’s “truthfulness”. For example, any number is considered truthful if it is nonzero, whereas any string is considered truthful if it is not the empty string. Thus, this function (recursively) counts how many elements in `a` (and in sub-arrays thereof) have their `__nonzero__()` or `__bool__()` method evaluated to `True`.

  Parameters:
    a array_like

      The array for which to count non-zeros.

    axis int or tuple, optional

      Axis or tuple of axes along which to count non-zeros. Default is None, meaning that non-zeros will be counted along a flattened version of `a`.

    keepdims bool, optional

      If this is set to True, the axes that are counted are left in the result as dimensions with size one. With this option, the result will broadcast correctly against the input array.

  Returns:
    count int or array of int

      Number of non-zero values in the array along a given axis. Otherwise, the total number of non-zero values in the array is returned.

  See also

  `nonzero`

    Return the coordinates of all the non-zero values.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> np.count_nonzero(np.eye(4))
      np.int64(4)
      >>> a = np.array([[0, 1, 7, 0],
      ...               [3, 0, 2, 19]])
      >>> np.count_nonzero(a)
      np.int64(5)
      >>> np.count_nonzero(a, axis=0)
      array([1, 1, 2, 1])
      >>> np.count_nonzero(a, axis=1)
      array([2, 3])
      >>> np.count_nonzero(a, axis=1, keepdims=True)
      array([[2],
             [3]])