eturns ------- result : csc_array, csr_array, bsr_array, dia_array or coo_array A sparse array/matrix containing the loaded data. Raises ------ OSError If the input file does not exist or cannot be read. See Also -------- scipy.sparse.save_npz: Save a sparse array/matrix to a file using ``.npz`` format. numpy.load: Load several arrays from a ``.npz`` archive. Examples -------- Store sparse array/matrix to disk, and load it again: >>> import numpy as np >>> import scipy as sp >>> sparse_array = sp.sparse.csc_array([[0, 0, 3], [4, 0, 0]]) >>> sparse_array >>> sparse_array.toarray() array([[0, 0, 3], [4, 0, 0]], dtype=int64) >>> sp.sparse.save_npz('/tmp/sparse_array.npz', sparse_array) >>> sparse_array = sp.sparse.load_npz('/tmp/sparse_array.npz') >>> sparse_array >>> sparse_array.toarray() array([[0, 0, 3], [4, 0, 0]], dtype=int64) In this example we force the result to be csr_array from csr_matrix >>> sparse_matrix = sp.sparse.csc_matrix([[0, 0, 3], [4, 0, 0]]) >>> sp.sparse.save_npz('/tmp/sparse_matrix.npz', sparse_matrix) >>> tmp = sp.sparse.load_npz('/tmp/sparse_matrix.npz') >>> sparse_array = sp.sparse.csr_array(tmp) r