Difference between ndarray and array in numpy

numpy.array() is just a method which returns an array object of the type ndarray.
Since the name of the method is array, developers who are new to Python often tend to confuse that numpy.array returns an array object of some “array” type. This is not the case.

Following Python code snippet makes this clear

from numpy import array

M = array([
    [1, 2, 3],
    [4, 5, 6],
    [7, 8, 9]
    ])

# Display the matrix
print(M)

# What is the type of the array created?
print(type(M))

# Check the module name of the array type
print(type(M).__module__)

Running the above code gives the following output:

[[1 2 3]
 [4 5 6]
 [7 8 9]]
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>
numpy