ImageFile.filled

ImageFile.filled(fill_value=None)

Return a copy of self, with masked values filled with a given value. However, if there are no masked values to fill, self will be returned instead as an ndarray.

fill_valuearray_like, optional

The value to use for invalid entries. Can be scalar or non-scalar. If non-scalar, the resulting ndarray must be broadcastable over input array. Default is None, in which case, the fill_value attribute of the array is used instead.

filled_arrayndarray

A copy of self with invalid entries replaced by fill_value (be it the function argument or the attribute of self), or self itself as an ndarray if there are no invalid entries to be replaced.

The result is not a MaskedArray!

>>> x = np.ma.array([1,2,3,4,5], mask=[0,0,1,0,1], fill_value=-999)
>>> x.filled()
array([   1,    2, -999,    4, -999])
>>> x.filled(fill_value=1000)
array([   1,    2, 1000,    4, 1000])
>>> type(x.filled())
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>

Subclassing is preserved. This means that if, e.g., the data part of the masked array is a recarray, filled returns a recarray:

>>> x = np.array([(-1, 2), (-3, 4)], dtype='i8,i8').view(np.recarray)
>>> m = np.ma.array(x, mask=[(True, False), (False, True)])
>>> m.filled()
rec.array([(999999,      2), (    -3, 999999)],
          dtype=[('f0', '<i8'), ('f1', '<i8')])