>>> import numpy as np
>>> from scipy import sparse
>>> A = np.array([[1,2,0],[0,0,3],[1,0,4]])>>> A
array([[1, 2, 0],[0, 0, 3],[1, 0, 4]])>>> sA = sparse.csr_matrix(A) # Here's the initialization of the sparse matrix.>>> sA
<3x3 sparse matrix of type '<type 'numpy.int32'>'with 5 stored elements in Compressed Sparse Row format>>>> print sA(0, 0) 1(0, 1) 2(1, 2) 3(2, 0) 1(2, 2) 4