Iterating through a scipy.sparse vector (or matrix)
Edit: bbtrb’s method (using coo_matrix) is much faster than my original suggestion, using nonzero. Sven Marnach’s suggestion to use itertools.izip also improves the speed. Current fastest is using_tocoo_izip: import scipy.sparse import random import itertools def using_nonzero(x): rows,cols = x.nonzero() for row,col in zip(rows,cols): ((row,col), x[row,col]) def using_coo(x): cx = scipy.sparse.coo_matrix(x) for i,j,v in zip(cx.row, cx.col, … Read more