[SciPy-User] flattened index for Sparse Matrix?

[braingateway]

Lutz Maibaum:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:44 AM, braingateway <braingateway at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks a lot! Then what about the first question? How could I index the
>> sparse matrix as flattened version?
>>     
>
> If you want to index only the non-zero matrix elements, you can use
> the (for CSR matrices) the data array directly. If you want to index
> all matrix elements, I can't think of a better way than to convert an
> index i to the two-dimensional matrix coordinates:
>
>   a[i / a.shape[1], i % a.shape[1]]
>   
Thanks, but is would be very inconvenient in lots of circumstances, such 
as nested dissection, blabla.
> Hope this helps,
>
>   Lutz
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