[Scipy-svn] r5230 - trunk/doc/release

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Author: jarrod.millman
Date: 2008-12-07 06:02:43 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008)
New Revision: 5230

Modified:
   trunk/doc/release/0.7.0-notes.rst
Log:
short description the matlab io changes (from Ray Jones)


Modified: trunk/doc/release/0.7.0-notes.rst
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--- trunk/doc/release/0.7.0-notes.rst	2008-12-06 21:24:57 UTC (rev 5229)
+++ trunk/doc/release/0.7.0-notes.rst	2008-12-07 12:02:43 UTC (rev 5230)
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@
 * the Matlab (TM) file readers/writers have a number of improvements:
 
  * default version 5
+ * v5 writers for structures, cell arrays, and objects
+ * v5 readers/writers for function handles and 64-bit integers
+ * new struct_as_record keyword argument to ``loadmat``, which loads
+   struct arrays in matlab as record arrays in numpy
+ * string arrays have ``dtype='U...'`` instead of ``dtype=object``
 
 New Hierarchical Clustering module
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