Suppose you have a numpy array of shape 10777 9 called pkt np array import scipy io as sio create a dictionary adict a.
Save matrix to mat file matlab in python.
If you do not specify filename the save function saves to a file named matlab mat.
Mat scipy io loadmat file mat similarly you can use savemat to export to mat files.
And after that the loadmat is the way to go.
Scipy io savemat file name mdict appendmat true format 5 long field names false do compression false oned as row source save a dictionary of names and arrays into a matlab style mat file.
To save us using a matlab license let s start in octave.
Exon 0 exon1 there is no concept of a tuple in matlab.
The workspace is not maintained across sessions of matlab when you quit matlab the workspace clears.
Start octave octave at the command line for me.
Save and load workspace variables.
That is not possible.
If filename has no extension that is no period followed by text and the value of format is not specified then matlab appends mat if filename does not include a full path matlab saves to the current folder.
However you can save any or all the variables in the current workspace to a mat file mat you can then reuse the workspace variables later during the current matlab session or during another session by loading the saved mat file.
This is a brief post which explains how to load these files using python the most popular language for machine learning today.
The matlab variables matrices arrays can be stored in mat files in order to read this data in python you would need a scipy io package.
I ve used it my throughout my engineering degree and chances are you will come across mat files for datasets released by the universities.
In matlab you can have cell arrays or structs which contain other arrays but you cannot have just a tuple of arrays assigned to a single variable which is what you have in mdict exon.
Matlab is a really popular platform for scientific computing in the academia.
Learn more about r2015b mat python matlab.
This saves the array objects in the given dictionary to a matlab style mat file.
You may have a mat file that you want to read into scipy.
Octave has matlab compatible save and load functions.
A cheap way to save out data for matlab within python is as follows.
Save python list to mat file r2015b.
Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar.