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Axis

The axis of an array define the sequence of the indices:

axis=0 corresponds to the first index, axis=1 to the second and so on.

67 63 87

77 69 59

85 87 99

79 72 71

63 89 93

68 92 78

axis = 1

axis = 0

The shape of an array is the set of

numbers (or more precise a tuple of integers) which define the number of elements in each dimensions. For the example above:

shape = (6,3)

axis = 0

axis = 1

axis = 2