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What is a .npy file?

application/x-npy

NPY is NumPy's native binary format for a single array. A short header records the dtype, shape, and memory order, followed by the raw array bytes, so an array round-trips exactly without any text parsing. It is the standard way to persist embeddings, tensors, and numeric matrices in the Python data stack.

How to use a .npy file

Use an example .npy to test array loaders (numpy.load), tensor and embedding pipelines, and converters between .npy, JSON, and columnar formats like Parquet.

Convert a .npy file to another format

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