matrix.tostring()

Construct Python bytes containing the raw data bytes in the array.

Constructs Python bytes showing a copy of the raw contents of data memory. The bytes object can be produced in either ?C? or ?Fortran?, or ?Any? order (the default is ?C?-order). ?Any? order means C-order unless the F_CONTIGUOUS flag in the array is set, in which case it means ?Fortran? order.

This function is a compatibility alias for tobytes. Despite its name it returns bytes not strings.

Examples

>>> x = np.array([[0, 1], [2, 3]])
>>> x.tobytes()
b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00'
>>> x.tobytes('C') == x.tobytes()
True
>>> x.tobytes('F')
b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00'