cf.Data.sparse_array

Data.sparse_array

Return an independent scipy sparse array of the data.

In-place changes to the returned sparse array do not affect the underlying dask array.

An AttributeError is raised if a sparse array representation is not available.

Performance

sparse_array causes all delayed operations to be computed. The returned sparse array is a deep copy of that returned by created compute.

Added in version (cfdm): 1.11.0.0

See also

array

Returns:

An independent scipy sparse array of the data.

Examples

>>> from scipy.sparse import issparse
>>> issparse(d.sparse_array)
True