[SciPy-Dev] Initial support for Harwell Boeing sparse matrix format

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:24:58 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
>> I have added support for simple read/write for HB matrix format. The
>> updated branch is on github:
>> https://github.com/cournape/scipy3/compare/master..._new_hb_io
>>
>> It adds a high-level API (read_hb/write_hb) as well as a lower-level API
>> for fine-grained control. The functions live in scipy.sparse.io. I
>> already put this patch last year, without any reaction, so I will assume
>> that no reaction means yes :)
>
> How about putting them in scipy.io? That's where the e.g. matrix market
> functions are, and it would make sense to put also HB there.

Indeed. I wonder how we want to export this into scipy.io: I think for
file format it actually makes sense to say from scipy.io.format_name
import function instead of putting everything into scipy.io, but I
don't feel strongly about it either.

cheers,

David