, 2, 3]).values
        array([1, 2, 3])

        >>> pd.Series(list('aabc')).values
        array(['a', 'a', 'b', 'c'], dtype=object)

        >>> pd.Series(list('aabc')).astype('category').values
        ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c']
        Categories (3, object): ['a', 'b', 'c']

        Timezone aware datetime data is converted to UTC:

        >>> pd.Series(pd.date_range('20130101', periods=3,
        ...                         tz='US/Eastern')).values
        array(['2013-01-01T05:00:00.000000000',
               '2013-01-02T05:00:00.000000000',
               '2013-01-03T05:00:00.000000000'], dtype='datetime64[ns]')
        )