[SciPy-user] Bug in io.mmread

[Nils Wagner]

Pearu Peterson wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Pearu Peterson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Nils Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have some trouble when using mmread; k0.mtx is large and sparse 
>>> matrix.
>>>
>>> %%MatrixMarket matrix coordinate real general
>>> % Generated 08-Nov-2004
>>> 67986 67986 4222171
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "test1.py", line 4, in ?
>>>   ma = io.mmread('k0.mtx')
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy/io/mmio.py", line 208, 
>>> in mmread
>>>   a = coo_matrix(data,(row,col),M=rows,N=cols)
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy/sparse/Sparse.py", line 
>>> 1366, in __init__
>>>   self._check()
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy/sparse/Sparse.py", line 
>>> 1376, in _check
>>>   self.ftype = _transtabl[self.typecode]
>>> KeyError: 'O'
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> Any pointer would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> I suspect that k0.mtx contains only integer values (some maybe larger 
>> that sys.maxint) and so asarray(data) returns array object with 
>> typecode=='O'. Could you send the file k0.mtx to me (don't send large 
>> files to the list) and I'll see if I can workaround this problem.
>
>
> Thanks for sending the file. It contains a line
>
>   34362 34362  559000591904384
>
> where 559000591904384 in python evaluates to 559000591904384L and
> asarray returned an array with typecode=='O' as a result.
>
> This issue is now fixed in scipy CVS.
>
Great ! Thank you very much ! BTW, are iterative solvers also affected 
with respect to this typecode  ?

                                     Nils

> Pearu
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