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<div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body" id="spc-section-body"> <div class="section" id="scipy-linalg-linalgerror"> <h1>scipy.linalg.LinAlgError<a class="headerlink" href="#scipy-linalg-linalgerror" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="scipy.linalg.LinAlgError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">scipy.linalg.</code><code class="descname">LinAlgError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#scipy.linalg.LinAlgError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Generic Python-exception-derived object raised by linalg functions.</p> <p>General purpose exception class, derived from Python’s exception.Exception class, programmatically raised in linalg functions when a Linear Algebra-related condition would prevent further correct execution of the function.</p> <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="field-name" /> <col class="field-body" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>None</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="rubric">Examples</p> <div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">linalg</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">LA</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">LA</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">inv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)))</span> <span class="gt">Traceback (most recent call last):</span> File <span class="nb">"<stdin>"</span>, line <span class="m">1</span>, in <span class="n"><module></span> <span class="gr"> File "...linalg.py", line 350,</span> <span class="gr"> in inv return wrap(solve(a, identity(a.shape[0], dtype=a.dtype)))</span> <span class="gr"> File "...linalg.py", line 249,</span> <span class="gr"> in solve</span> <span class="gr"> raise LinAlgError('Singular matrix')</span> <span class="gr">numpy.linalg.LinAlgError</span>: <span class="n">Singular matrix</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container container-navbar-bottom"> <div class="spc-navbar"> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="footer"> <div class="row-fluid"> <ul class="inline pull-left"> <li> © Copyright 2008-2016, The Scipy community. </li> <li> Last updated on Sep 21, 2017. </li> <li> Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.6.3. </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>