Read this path into a :class:`numpy.ndarray` using :func:`numpy.load`.
        *kwargs* are passed to :func:`numpy.load`; they likely are:

	mmap_mode : None, 'r+', 'r', 'w+', 'c'
          Load the array using memory-mapping
	allow_pickle : bool = True
          Whether Pickle-format data are allowed; potential security hazard.
	fix_imports : bool = True
	  Try to fix Python 2->3 import renames when loading Pickle-format data.
	encoding : 'ASCII', 'latin1', 'bytes'
	  The encoding to use when reading Python 2 strings in Pickle-format data.

def read_numpy (self, **kwargs):
        """Read this path into a :class:`numpy.ndarray` using :func:`numpy.load`.
        *kwargs* are passed to :func:`numpy.load`; they likely are:

	mmap_mode : None, 'r+', 'r', 'w+', 'c'
          Load the array using memory-mapping
	allow_pickle : bool = True
          Whether Pickle-format data are allowed; potential security hazard.
	fix_imports : bool = True
	  Try to fix Python 2->3 import renames when loading Pickle-format data.
	encoding : 'ASCII', 'latin1', 'bytes'
	  The encoding to use when reading Python 2 strings in Pickle-format data.

        """
        import numpy as np
        with self.open ('rb') as f:
            return np.load (f, **kwargs)