Can't really relate to the last comment.  My interest in MatrixMarket format
is not to shoot myself in the foot.  Rather, it is because of 2 different
reasons.  One is that 2 different vendors have asked for some sample matrices
from the problems I solve and their format preference is MatrixMarket.

Second is that I would like to test some of my matrices with the new version
of cholmod that has gpu support since I have seen good performance with other
matrices and I have not been able to get cholmod to work with cublas in petsc
yet.  Petsc crashes when I try to call cholmod with its cublas support.

However, cholmod has a test program that can read and solve systems which are
input via MatrixMarket format.  I certainly don't want to shoot myself in the
foot or use MatrixMarket format for any sort of production scenario.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll look into exploring python for this task.

Dave