From 27cb33213ef54e70d5589454240777166e8d73f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alistair Miles <alimanfoo@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:59:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] handle copy kwarg in asarray_ndim

---
 allel/util.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/allel/util.py b/allel/util.py
index b96484bf..0d5a8585 100644
--- a/allel/util.py
+++ b/allel/util.py
@@ -43,9 +43,13 @@ def asarray_ndim(a, *ndims, **kwargs):
 
     """
     allow_none = kwargs.pop('allow_none', False)
+    copy = kwargs.pop("copy", False)
     if a is None and allow_none:
         return None
-    a = np.asarray(a, **kwargs)
+    if copy:
+        a = np.array(a, **kwargs)
+    else:
+        a = np.asarray(a, **kwargs)
     if a.ndim not in ndims:
         if len(ndims) > 1:
             expect_str = 'one of %s' % str(ndims)