Numpy np.array Basic array operations a=np.array([[1,2],[3,4]]) [ [1, 2], [3, 4] ] np.mean(a) #2.5 np.mean(a,axis=0) #array([ 2., 3.]) #column wise np.mean(a,axis=1) #array([ 1.5, 3.5]) #row wise b=np.array([[11,5,14],[2,5,1]]) [ [11, 5, 14], [2, 5, 1] ] np.sort(b) # array([[ 5, 11, 14], [ 1, 2, 5]]) np.sort(b,axis=1) # array([[ 5, 11, 14], [ 1, 2, 5]]) np.sort(b,axis=0) # array([[ 2, 5, 1], [ 11, 5, 14]])