[SciPy-user] reading .mat-files (Matlab 7)

[Stef Mientki]

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>> this would be very welcome, ...
>> ... I don't understand svn
>> ... I didn't even knew there was a "loadmat"
>> I translated my scripts by hand :-(
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>> I think it would be very nice for those who consider switching from MatLab,
>> that the first line they read is "and there is a M-file conversion tool".
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> I have the feeling that there is a confusion between mat files and m 
> scripts. mat files are just a file format used by matlab to store data. 
> m scripts are matlab code, which scipy has no way to understand.
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thanks David,
you're completely right, that was the mis-understanding.
So happily the manual translation wasn't a waste of time after all ;-)

cheers,
Stef Mientki