Merge pull request #646 from IntelPython/feature/asarray

Feature/asarray

Author: oleksandr-pavlyk

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Next Release] - TBD
 
+### Added
+- `dpctl.tensor.asarray`, `dpctl.tensor.empty` implemented (#646).
+
+### Changed
 - dpctl-capi is now renamed to `libsyclinterface` (#666).
 
 ## [0.11.1] - 11/10/2021

dpctl/tensor/__init__.py

@@ -33,13 +33,16 @@
 from dpctl.tensor._copy_utils import copy_from_numpy as from_numpy
 from dpctl.tensor._copy_utils import copy_to_numpy as asnumpy
 from dpctl.tensor._copy_utils import copy_to_numpy as to_numpy
+from dpctl.tensor._ctors import asarray, empty
 from dpctl.tensor._reshape import reshape
 from dpctl.tensor._usmarray import usm_ndarray
 
 __all__ = [
     "usm_ndarray",
+    "asarray",
     "astype",
     "copy",
+    "empty",
     "reshape",
     "from_numpy",
     "to_numpy",

dpctl/tensor/_copy_utils.py

@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ def copy_to_numpy(ary):
     )
 
 
-def copy_from_numpy(np_ary, usm_type="device", queue=None):
+def copy_from_numpy(np_ary, usm_type="device", sycl_queue=None):
     "Copies numpy array `np_ary` into a new usm_ndarray"
     # This may peform a copy to meet stated requirements
     Xnp = np.require(np_ary, requirements=["A", "O", "C", "E"])
-    if queue:
-        ctor_kwargs = {"queue": queue}
+    if sycl_queue:
+        ctor_kwargs = {"queue": sycl_queue}
     else:
         ctor_kwargs = dict()
     Xusm = dpt.usm_ndarray(