ak.contents.create_missing_data
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.. py:module: ak.contents.create_missing_data

Defined in `awkward.contents.indexedoptionarray <https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/blob/36da52cfa8846355c390beb6555eac1d31c27c26/src/awkward/contents/indexedoptionarray.py>`__ on `line 1829 <https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/blob/36da52cfa8846355c390beb6555eac1d31c27c26/src/awkward/contents/indexedoptionarray.py#L1829>`__.

.. py:function:: ak.contents.create_missing_data(dtype, backend)

Create missing data based on the input dtype

Missing data are represented differently based on the Numpy array
dtype, this function returns the proper missing data representation
given the input dtype