scipy.sparse.coo_matrix sparse matrix storage data

# Constructing an empty matrix
from scipy.sparse import coo_matrix
coo_matrix((3, 4), dtype=np.int8).toarray()

array([[0, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 0]], dtype=int8)

row  = np.array([0, 3, 1, 0])
col  = np.array([0, 3, 1, 2])
data = np.array([4, 5, 7, 9])
coo_matrix((data, (row, col)), shape=(4, 4)).toarray()

array([[4, 0, 9, 0],
       [0, 7, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 5]])

row  = np.array([0, 0, 1, 3, 1, 0, 0])
col  = np.array([0, 2, 1, 3, 1, 0, 0])
data = np.array([1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1])
coo = coo_matrix((data, (row, col)), shape=(4, 4))
# Duplicate indices are maintained until implicitly or explicitly summed
coo.toarray()

array([[3, 0, 1, 0],
       [0, 2, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 1]])