wrap scipy matrixes in Rust

[kno10]

It would be great if one could use this to access scipy csr_matrix/csc_matrix from Rust for writing extensions.
There is rust-numpy to work with numpy arrays from rust, but that does not include scipy sparse matrixes.
But it would be great to write performance-critical operations in rust, and allow "driving" them from Python.

[mulimoen]

Are you looking for a python wrapper around this (#200) or something different? The crate is generic on storage type so you should be able to regenerate the matrix on the rust side if you have the raw buffers.

[kno10]

No, the opposite. Process scipy csr matrixes with rust without copying them first.
Use case: a user does the preprocessing into tf-idf matrix in python, then calls a fast rust library for the analysis.

[mulimoen]

A TryInto<CsMatViewI> impl? A direct implementation seems out of scope for this crate, as we have to pull in so many dependencies. This should be as simple as calling
new_unchecked using the buffers given by scipy. Just make sure the indices are sorted on the python side.