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!

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Answer 1

Since tridiagonal matrix is a sparse matrix using a sparse package could be a nice option, see http://pysparse.sourceforge.net/spmatrix.html#matlab-implementation, there are some examples and comparisons with MATLAB even...