[SciPy-User] scipy.io.loadmat error when trying to read a .mat file

[Pauli Virtanen]

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:24:33 -0500, Dharhas Pothina wrote:
> It looks like it fails with files generated by one of our instruments. I
> was able to read in another type of matlab file without a problem. I
> think I was able to read this type of file in a previous version of
> scipy (can't tell you which one now, it was a long time ago), when I had
> tested our ability to read this type of file. I also tried scipy v0.7.0
> installed on one of our linux boxes just know and it gave me the same
> error (but not the warning). Running the test suite on the windows box
> gave me three errors listed below, on linux (w/ ver scipy 7.0) all tests
> passed. I've posted two sample files at the links below. On windows I'm
> installed with the scipy-0.8.0-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe binary.

Ok, access to the failing file is probably needed to sort this out.

> sample files:
> 
> http://midgewater.twdb.state.tx.us/bays_estuaries/Publications
\20100819125947.mat
> (~330KB)
> http://midgewater.twdb.state.tx.us/bays_estuaries/Publications
\20100819102442.mat
> (~18mb)

I'm not able to access these -- maybe your institute has a firewall in 
between? You can also e.g. send the smaller file to me via mail.

> scipy.io test errors on windows 32 bit:
[clip]
>   "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\tests\test_array_import.py",

There's no file named "test_array_import.py" in Scipy 0.8.0. You probably 
have some left-over files from Scipy 0.7.x in the directory. Anyway, the 
test suite seems to be in order.

-- 
Pauli Virtanen