[SciPy-dev] Segfault

[Robert Kern]

Nils Wagner wrote:

> Reading finished
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "matrixstructure.py", line 8, in ?
>     K = K.todense()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/sparse/sparse.py", line
> 356, in todense
>     return asmatrix(self.toarray())
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/sparse/sparse.py", line
> 360, in toarray
>     return csc.toarray()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/sparse/sparse.py", line
> 969, in toarray
>     return func(self.shape[0], self.data, self.rowind, self.indptr)
> MemoryError

Notabug. The array is simply too large to be represented as a dense array. You
need to either get more memory, or write a procedure to plot the sparsity
pattern without creating the dense version of the array. Good luck.

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