demonstrate the treatment of the imaginary part of the diagonal >>> a = np.array([[5+2j, 9-2j], [0+2j, 2-1j]]) >>> a array([[5.+2.j, 9.-2.j], [0.+2.j, 2.-1.j]]) >>> # with UPLO='L' this is numerically equivalent to using LA.eigvals() >>> # with: >>> b = np.array([[5.+0.j, 0.-2.j], [0.+2.j, 2.-0.j]]) >>> b array([[5.+0.j, 0.-2.j], [0.+2.j, 2.+0.j]]) >>> wa = LA.eigvalsh(a) >>> wb = LA.eigvals(b) >>> wa; wb array([1., 6.]) array([6.+0.j, 1.+0.j]) ©