Homogenize the input value for easy and efficient normalization.

value can be a scalar or sequence.

Returns¶

resultmasked array

Masked array with the same shape as value.

is_scalarbool

Whether value is a scalar.

Notes¶

Float dtypes are preserved; integer types with two bytes or smaller are converted to np.float32, and larger types are converted to np.float64. Preserving float32 when possible, and using in-place operations, greatly improves speed for large arrays.