On May 23, 5:10 pm, no1 <no1.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, we're investigating transitioning our company from matlab to python. We
> found OMPC as a MATLAB m-file-to Python translator, but we're encountering a
> problem using the translated code to import MATLAB data structures into
> Python. For example, when we save data within MATLAB this way:
>
> x.a = 5;
> x.b = 6;
> save -v6 test x
>
> this saves data in test.mat, with MATLAB version 6 compatibility (OMPC says
> it's not compatible with the latest versions of MATLAB). The code to read in
> data in MATLAB is just
>
> load test
>
> and when we run it through OMPC we get
>
> load(mstring('test.mat'))
>
> but when we run it we get the error message
>
> File "ompclib\ompclib_numpy.py", line 1496, in load
> KeyError: "[('a', '|O4'), ('b', '|O4')]"
>
> Reading in simpler data (up to arrays) does not have this problem.
>
> To get other people in the company to transition, we were hoping that the
> translation process could be done in one step or on the fly. We could read in
> MATLAB data using I/O functions imported from scipy, but then the transition
> isn't seamless any more.
>
> Is there a simple fix to using OMPC? Or a similar alternative that would work
> better?
>
> Thanks
Have you tried using loadmat from the scipy.io module?
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/io.html
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