Most efficient way to map function over numpy array

Question

What is the most efficient way to map a function over a numpy array? The way I\'ve been doing it in my current project is as follows:

import numpy as np 

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Answer 1

I believe in newer version( I use 1.13) of numpy you can simply call the function by passing the numpy array to the fuction that you wrote for scalar type, it will automatically apply the function call to each element over the numpy array and return you another numpy array

>>> import numpy as np
>>> squarer = lambda t: t ** 2
>>> x = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
>>> squarer(x)
array([ 1,  4,  9, 16, 25])