WHAT IS SHAPE OF AN ARRAY IN PYTHON NUMPY?

The shape of an array is the number of elements in each dimension.

Getting the Shape of an Array-

shape attribute of python numpy returns a tuple with each index having the number of corresponding elements.

import numpy as np

arr = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])

print(arr.shape)

Output-

(2, 3)

Explanation-

The above example returns shape tuple – (2, 3), which means that the array-arr has 2 dimensions, where the first dimension has 2 elements and the second has 3 elements. Integers in shape tuple at every index tells about the number of elements the corresponding dimension has.