mat73 0.3

Load MATLAB .mat 7.3 into Python native data types

mat7.3

Load MATLAB 7.3 .mat files into Python.

Starting with MATLAB 7.3, .mat files have been changed to store as custom hdf5 files. This means they cannot be loaded by scipy.io.loadmat any longer and raise.

NotImplementedError: Please use HDF reader for matlab v7.3 files

Quickstart

This library loads MATLAB 7.3 HDF5 files into a Python dictionary.

import mat73
data_dict = mat73.loadmat('data.mat')

Installation

To install, run:

pip install mat73

Alternatively:

pip install git+https://github.com/skjerns/mat7.3

Short-comings

• cell objects are loaded as lists. That means they lose their structure and and need to be sorted manually
• Proprietary MATLAB types (e.g datetime, duriation, etc) are not supported