[SciPy-dev] is PySparse required for scipy.maxentropy

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

historic artifact or not?

I saw a reference to PySparse in scipy.maxentropy.maxentutils.sparsefeatures.
Is this still required or covered by scipy.sparse?

Josef

def sparsefeatures(f, x, format='csc_matrix'):
    """ Returns an Mx1 sparse matrix of non-zero evaluations of the
    scalar functions f_1,...,f_m in the list f at the point x.

    If format='ll_mat', the PySparse module (or a symlink to it) must be
    available in the Python site-packages/ directory.  A trimmed-down
    version, patched for NumPy compatibility, is available in the SciPy
    sandbox/pysparse directory.
    """
    m = len(f)
    if format == 'll_mat':
        import spmatrix
        sparsef = spmatrix.ll_mat(m, 1)