Block tridiagonal matrix python

Question

I would like to create a block tridiagonal matrix starting from three numpy.ndarray. Is there any (direct) way to do that in python?

Thank you in advance!

Ch

Answer 1

Use the function scipy.sparse.diags.

Example:

from scipy.sparse import diags
import numpy as np
#
n = 10
k = np.array([np.ones(n-1),-2*np.ones(n),np.ones(n-1)])
offset = [-1,0,1]
A = diags(k,offset).toarray()

This returns:

array([[-2.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 1., -2.,  1.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 0.,  1., -2.,  1.,  0.],
       [ 0.,  0.,  1., -2.,  1.],
       [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  1., -2.]])