rays as columns into a 2-D array. Notes ----- When one or more of the arrays to be concatenated is a MaskedArray, this function will return a MaskedArray object instead of an ndarray, but the input masks are *not* preserved. In cases where a MaskedArray is expected as input, use the ma.concatenate function from the masked array module instead. Examples -------- >>> a = np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]]) >>> b = np.array([[5, 6]]) >>> np.concatenate((a, b), axis=0) array([[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]) >>> np.concatenate((a, b.T), axis=1) array([[1, 2, 5], [3, 4, 6]]) >>> np.concatenate((a, b), axis=None) array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]) This function will not preserve masking of MaskedArray inputs. >>> a = np.ma.arange(3) >>> a[1] = np.ma.masked >>> b = np.arange(2, 5) >>> a masked_array(data=[0, --, 2], mask=[False, True, False], fill_value=999999) >>> b array([2, 3, 4]) >>> np.concatenate([a, b]) masked_array(data=[0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4], mask=False, fill_value=999999) >>> np.ma.concatenate([a, b]) masked_array(data=[0, --, 2, 2, 3, 4], mask=[False, True, False, False, False, False], fill_value=999999) )