[SciPy-User] memory errors when using savemat

[David Cournapeau]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Tyrel Newton <newton at tethers.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use scipy.io.savemat to export a very large set of data to a .mat file. The dataset contains around 20 million floats. When I try to export this to a .mat file, I get a MemoryError. The specific MemoryError is:
>
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\matlab\miobase.py", line 557 in write_bytes
>        self.file_stream.write(arr.tostring(order='F'))
>
> I'm running this on Windows under Python 2.6.

Could you give us a small script which reproduces the error ? 20
million is pretty small, I suspect something else or a bug in scipy,

cheers,

David