[SciPy-User] loading mat file in scipy

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 11:35:40 EDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:33, Alireza Alemi-Neissi <alemi at sissa.it> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I do not know if it is the right place to ask this question. If not,
> please let me know where I can post it.
> This the problem:
>
> I have recently tried to use scipy.io.loadmat() to load a mat file to
> python.
> The mat file is a complicated nested structure in matlab. It turned out
> that it takes a long time (around 5 min) to load this data the size of
> which is around 120MB.
> On the other hand it take only a couple of seconds to load it in Matlab.
> What is wrong with loadmat in scipy?

Without seeing the file, I have no idea.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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