code: def asarray(v):
      """Convert input to array
  
      First it tries with a normal `np.asarray(v)` if this does not work
      it tries with `np.asarray(v, dtype=object)`.
  
      The ValueError raised is because of an inhomogeneous shape of the input,
      which raises an error in numpy v1.24 and above.
  
      """
      try:
          return np.asarray(v)
      except ValueError:
          return np.asarray(v, dtype=object)
  
imports: import warnings
  import numpy
  import shapely
  import shapely.geometry
  from cartopy import crs
  from cartopy.io.img_tiles import GoogleTiles, QuadtreeTiles
  from holoviews.element import Tiles
  from packaging.version import Version
  from shapely.geometry import LinearRing, LineString, MultiLineString, MultiPoint, MultiPolygon, Point, Polygon, box
  from shapely.geometry.base import BaseMultipartGeometry
  from shapely.ops import transform
  from ._warnings import deprecated, warn
label_desc: Use image node_id 22 for calling a global function with example usage: asarray(v) and returns: np, np