[SciPy-user] Automatically retreiving Matrix Market files

[Nils Wagner]

Pearu Peterson wrote:

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>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Nils Wagner wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am going to retreive test matrices from the Matrix Market page
>>
>> from scipy import *
>> from tempfile import mktemp
>> from urllib import urlretrieve
>> url="http://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket/data/SPARSKIT/fidap"
>> fname =  mktemp(".mtx.gz")
>> print "Downloading Matrix Market; this may take a minute..."
>> urlretrieve(url, fname)
>>
>> How can I decompress the file afterwards and how do I use
>>
>> io.mmread()
>>
>> to import the matrix under consideration.
>
>
> Try:
>
>   import gzip
>   io.mmread(gzip.open(fname))
>
> Pearu


Hi Pearu,

from scipy import *
from tempfile import mktemp
from urllib import urlretrieve
import os
path = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'matrices')
import gzip

url="ftp://math.nist.gov/pub/MatrixMarket2/SPARSKIT/fidap/fidap005.mtx.gz"
fname =  mktemp(".mtx.gz")
print "Downloading Matrix Market; this may take a minute..."
urlretrieve(url, fname)
A = io.mmread(gzip.open(fname))

Now it works fine. Thank you very much !

BTW, how can I remove the *.mtx.gz files in /tmp automatically ?

Nils

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