How to Import/Export Matlab *.mat file to Python?

ACMer

11 years ago

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.

import scipy.io

And, after that, the loadmat is the way to go.

mat = scipy.io.loadmat('file.mat')

Similarly, you can use savemat to export to *.mat files.

arr = [x**2 for x in xrange(10)]
scipy.io.savemat('file.mat', arr)