[SciPy-User] scipy.io.matlab.loadmat error

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

2010/5/31 Fernando Guimarães Ferreira <fernando.ferreira at poli.ufrj.br>:
> In the last email I meant python 2.6.5
> The mat file is attached... This is a test, there is just an array 'x' with
> few elements..

It works for me with 0.7.2.  I wonder what's going on?

[mb312 at blair ~/tmp]$ uname -a
Darwin blair 10.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09
PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
[mb312 at blair ~/tmp]$ ipython
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 22 2009, 14:55:30)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.11.alpha1.bzr.r1223 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

In [1]: import scipy

In [2]: scipy.__version__
Out[2]: '0.7.2'

In [3]: import scipy.io.matlab

In [4]: scipy.io.matlab.loadmat('/Users/mb312/Downloads/teste.mat')
/Users/mb312/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/io/matlab/mio.py:84:
FutureWarning: Using struct_as_record default value (False) This will
change to True in future versions
  return MatFile5Reader(byte_stream, **kwargs)
Out[4]:
{'__globals__': [],
 '__header__': 'MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, Platform: MACI, Created on: Mon
May 31 21:06:09 2010',
 '__version__': '1.0',
 'x': array([[0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7]], dtype=uint8)}

Best,

Matthew