Which sparse matrix package?

[James Mills]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Martin Manns <mmanns at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi:

Hi,

> I am writing a spreadsheet application in Python

What's wrong with pyspread ?

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> The dict that I tried out is of the type:
>
> {(1,2,3): "2323", (1,2,545): "2324234", ... }
>
> It is too slow for my application when it grows. One slicing operation
> with list comprehensions takes about 1/2 s on my computer for 1E6
> elements.

Let me get this straight.
It's taking 0.5s to slice your matrix
of 1E7 (10000000.0 rows/columns)

Are you mad ? This is TEN Millions and you
required it faster than 0.5s ?

Am I missing something here ?

cheers
James