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.
  
      Reason why it is not located in holoviews.core.util is that there is a already a
      function called `asarray`.
      """
      try:
          return np.asarray(v)
      except ValueError:
          return np.asarray(v, dtype=object)
  
imports: import sys
  from collections import defaultdict
  import numpy
  import pandas
  from ..dimension import dimension_name
  from ..util import isscalar, unique_array, unique_iterator
  from .interface import DataError, Interface
  from .multipath import MultiInterface, ensure_ring
  from .pandas import PandasInterface
label_desc: Use image node_id 11 for calling a global function with example usage: _asarray(v) and returns: np, np