diff --git a/examples/meta/src/distance/sparseeuclidean.sg b/examples/meta/src/distance/sparseeuclidean.sg
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+CSVFile f_feats_a("../../data/fm_train_sparsereal.dat")
+CSVFile f_feats_b("../../data/fm_test_sparsereal.dat")
+
+#![create_features]
+Features features_a = features(f_feats_a)
+Features features_b = features(f_feats_b)
+#![create_features]
+
+#![create_instance]
+Distance d = distance("SparseEuclideanDistance", lhs=features_a, rhs=features_a)
+#![create_instance]
+
+#![extract_distance]
+RealMatrix distance_matrix_aa = d.get_distance_matrix()
+#![extract_distance]
+
+#![refresh_distance]
+d.init(features_a, features_b)
+RealMatrix distance_matrix_ab = d.get_distance_matrix()
+#![refresh_distance]
diff --git a/examples/undocumented/python/distance_sparseeuclidean.py b/examples/undocumented/python/distance_sparseeuclidean.py
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--- a/examples/undocumented/python/distance_sparseeuclidean.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-import shogun as sg
-traindat = '../data/fm_train_sparsereal.dat'
-testdat = '../data/fm_test_sparsereal.dat'
-
-parameter_list = [[traindat,testdat],[traindat,testdat]]
-
-def distance_sparseeuclidean (train_fname=traindat,test_fname=testdat):
-	from shogun import SparseRealFeatures
-	import shogun as sg
-
-	feats_train=SparseRealFeatures(sg.libsvm_file(train_fname))
-	feats_test=SparseRealFeatures(sg.libsvm_file(test_fname))
-
-	distance = sg.distance('SparseEuclideanDistance')
-	distance.init(feats_train, feats_train)
-
-	dm_train=distance.get_distance_matrix()
-	distance.init(feats_train, feats_test)
-	dm_test=distance.get_distance_matrix()
-
-	return distance,dm_train,dm_test
-
-if __name__=='__main__':
-	print('SparseEuclideanDistance')
-	distance_sparseeuclidean(*parameter_list[0])