[SciPy-user] io.loadmat

[Travis Oliphant]

Loadmat will only read mat files saved using the MATLAB version 4 file 
format.  You can save mat files in MATLAB in this format using the -v4 
switch when you enter the save command (do a help save in MATLAB for 
information).  There is no reason we couldn't read the MATLAB version 5 
format --- it's documented on the web.  But, it is significantly more 
complicated and nobody has spent the time to write it.  Perhaps you 
could write it.

-Travis