betterspy 0.1.3

Show sparsity patterns of sparse matrices

betterspy

Show sparsity patterns of sparse matrices or write them to image files.

Example:

import betterspy

A = sparse.rand(20, 20, density=0.1)

# betterspy.plot()
# set attributes on gca()
# plt.show()
# or directly

betterspy.show(A)

betterspy.write_png(
    "out.png", A,
    # border_width=2,
    # border_color="red",
    # colormap="viridis"
    )

no colormap	viridis

There is a command-line tool that can be used to show matrix-market files:

betterspy msc00726.mtx [out.png]

See betterspy -h for all options.

Installation

betterspy is available from the Python Package Index, so simply do

pip install betterspy

to install.

Testing

To run the betterspy unit tests, check out this repository and type

pytest

License

This software is published under the GPLv3 license.