numpy.argmin() in Python

The numpy.argmin() method returns indices of the min element of the array in a particular axis. 
 

Syntax : 

numpy.argmin(array, axis = None, out = None)


Parameters : 

array : Input array to work on 
axis : [int, optional]Along a specified axis like 0 or 1
out : [array optional]Provides a feature to insert output to the out
 array and it should be of appropriate shape and dtype


Return :  

Array of indices into the array with same shape as array.shape
 with the dimension along axis removed.


Code 1 :  

Output :  

INPUT ARRAY : 
 [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7]

Indices of min element : 0


Code 2 :  

Output : 

INPUT ARRAY : 
 [[ 8 13 5 0]
 [ 0 2 5 3]
 [10 7 15 15]
 [ 3 11 4 12]]

Indices of min element : [1 1 3 0]


Code 3 : 

Output :

array : 
 [[0 1 2 3 4]
 [5 6 7 8 9]]

array : 
 [[10 1 2 3 4]
 [ 5 1 7 8 9]]

array : 1

min ELEMENT INDICES : [1 0 0 0 0]