Closes Bears-R-Us#3757: ak.array gives unexpected results on a transp…

…osed numpy multi-dimensional array.

arkouda/pdarraycreation.py

@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ def array(
             raise RuntimeError(
                 "Array exceeds allowed transfer size. Increase ak.client.maxTransferBytes to allow"
             )
+        #   Make a copy to avoid error #3757
+        a = a.copy()
         # Pack binary array data into a bytes object with a command header
         # including the dtype and size. If the server has a different byteorder
         # than our numpy array we need to swap to match since the server expects

tests/pdarray_creation_test.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 import arkouda as ak
+from arkouda.testing import assert_arkouda_array_equal
 
 INT_SCALARS = list(ak.dtypes.int_scalars.__args__)
 NUMERIC_SCALARS = list(ak.dtypes.numeric_scalars.__args__)
@@ -104,6 +105,17 @@ def test_array_creation_misc(self):
         with pytest.raises(TypeError):
             ak.array(list(list(0)))
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip_if_max_rank_less_than(2)
+    def test_array_creation_transpose_bug_reproducer(self):
+
+        import numpy as np
+
+        rows = 5
+        cols = 5
+        nda = np.random.randint(1, 10, (rows, cols))
+
+        assert_arkouda_array_equal(ak.transpose(ak.array(nda)), ak.array(np.transpose(nda)))
+
     def test_infer_shape_from_size(self):
         from arkouda.util import _infer_shape_from_size