[Numpy-discussion] Mathematica vs Matlab vs Python

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 12:48:17PM -0700, Matthew Brett wrote:
> > Yup. It's not even very idiomatic Python. readlines() is probably a
> > bad idea unless your file is trivial length, and even ignoring
> > numpy.loadtxt(), all of this could be considerably simplified with the
> > built-in csv module.

> or a 1-liner with scipy.io.loadmat ...

No crack! Some dude built a matlab reader for Python. Crazy man!

Gaël