Python: how do you store a sparse matrix using python?

Question

I have got an output using sparse matrix in python, i need to store this sparse matrix in my hard disk, how can i do it? if i should create a database then how should i do?? thi

Answer 1

Note: This answer is in response to the revise question that now provides code.

You should not call cPickle.dump() in your function. Create the sparse matrix and then dump its contents to the file.

Try:

def markov(L):
   count=0
   c=len(text1)
   for i in range(0,c-2):
       h=L.index(text1[i])
       k=L.index(text1[i+1])
       mat[h,k]=mat[h,k]+1 #matrix


text = [w for g in brown.categories() for w in brown.words(categories=g)]
text1=text[1:500]
arr=set(text1)
arr=list(arr)
mat=lil_matrix((len(arr),len(arr)))
markov(arr)
f = open('spmatrix.pkl','wb')
cPickle.dump(mat,f,-1)
f.close()