SparseArray.todense

abstract SparseArray.todense()

Convert this SparseArray array to a dense numpy.ndarray. Note that this may take a large amount of memory and time.

Returns:

The converted dense array.

Return type:

numpy.ndarray

See also

DOK.todense

Equivalent DOK array method.

COO.todense

Equivalent COO array method.

scipy.sparse.coo_matrix.todense

Equivalent Scipy method.

Examples

>>> import sparse
>>> x = np.random.randint(100, size=(7, 3))
>>> s = sparse.COO.from_numpy(x)
>>> x2 = s.todense()
>>> np.array_equal(x, x2)
True