`scipy.io._mmio:mmread`

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def mmread ( source , * , spmatrix = True )

Reads the contents of a Matrix Market file-like 'source' into a matrix.

source : str or file-like: Matrix Market filename (extensions .mtx, .mtz.gz) or open file-like object.
spmatrix : bool, optional (default: True): If True, return sparse matrix. Otherwise return sparse array.

a : ndarray or coo_array or coo_matrix: Dense or sparse array depending on the matrix format in the Matrix Market file.

from io import StringIO
from scipy.io import mmread

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text = '''%%MatrixMarket matrix coordinate real general
 5 5 7
 2 3 1.0
 3 4 2.0
 3 5 3.0
 4 1 4.0
 4 2 5.0
 4 3 6.0
 4 4 7.0
'''

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``mmread(source)`` returns the data as sparse matrix in COO format.

m = mmread(StringIO(text), spmatrix=False)

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m.toarray()

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