ined via `diag_indices`, but internally this version uses a much faster implementation that never constructs the indices and uses simple slicing. Examples -------- >>> import numpy as np >>> a = np.zeros((3, 3), int) >>> np.fill_diagonal(a, 5) >>> a array([[5, 0, 0], [0, 5, 0], [0, 0, 5]]) The same function can operate on a 4-D array: >>> a = np.zeros((3, 3, 3, 3), int) >>> np.fill_diagonal(a, 4) We only show a few blocks for clarity: >>> a[0, 0] array([[4, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]]) >>> a[1, 1] array([[0, 0, 0], [0, 4, 0], [0, 0, 0]]) >>> a[2, 2] array([[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 4]]) The wrap option affects only tall matrices: >>> # tall matrices no wrap >>> a = np.zeros((5, 3), int) >>> np.fill_diagonal(a, 4) >>> a array([[4, 0, 0], [0, 4, 0], [0, 0, 4], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]]) >>> # tall matrices wrap >>> a = np.zeros((5, 3), int) >>> np.fill_diagonal(a, 4, wrap=True) >>> a array([[4, 0, 0], [0, 4, 0], [0, 0, 4], [0, 0, 0], [4, 0, 0]]) >>> # wide matrices >>> a = np.zeros((3, 5), int) >>> np.fill_diagonal(a, 4, wrap=True) >>> a array([[4, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 4, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 4, 0, 0]]) The anti-diagonal can be filled by reversing the order of elements using either `numpy.flipud` or `numpy.fliplr`. >>> a = np.zeros((3, 3), int); >>> np.fill_diagonal(np.fliplr(a), [1,2,3]) # Horizontal flip >>> a array([[0, 0, 1], [0, 2, 0], [3, 0, 0]]) >>> np.fill_diagonal(np.flipud(a), [1,2,3]) # Vertical flip >>> a array([[0, 0, 3], [0, 2, 0], [1, 0, 0]]) Note that the order in which the diagonal is filled varies depending on the flip function. r