[Numpy-discussion] scipy.io.loadmat can't handle structs from octave (original) (raw)

Brian Blais bblais at bryant.edu
Mon Jun 12 08:56:51 EDT 2006

Hello,

I am trying to load some .mat files in python, that were saved with octave. I get some weird things with strings, and structs fail altogether. Am I doing something wrong? Python 2.4, Scipy '0.4.9.1906', numpy 0.9.8, octave 2.1.71, running Linux.

thanks,

Brian Blais

here is what I tried:

Numbers are ok:

 ========OCTAVE==========
     >> a=rand(4)
     a =

       0.617860  0.884195  0.032998  0.217922
       0.207970  0.753992  0.333966  0.905661
       0.048432  0.290895  0.353919  0.958442
       0.697213  0.616851  0.426595  0.371364

     >> save -mat-binary pythonfile.mat a
 =========PYTHON===========

     In [13]:d=io.loadmat('pythonfile.mat')

     In [14]:d
     Out[14]:
     {'__header__': 'MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, written by Octave 2.1.71, 2006-06-09

14:23:54 UTC', 'version': '1.0', 'a': array([[ 0.61785957, 0.88419484, 0.03299807, 0.21792207], [ 0.20796989, 0.75399171, 0.33396634, 0.90566095], [ 0.04843219, 0.29089527, 0.35391921, 0.95844178], [ 0.69721313, 0.61685075, 0.42659485, 0.37136358]])}

Strings are weird (turns to all 1's) ========OCTAVE========== >> a='hello' a = hello >> save -mat-binary pythonfile.mat a =========PYTHON=========== In [15]:d=io.loadmat('pythonfile.mat')

     In [16]:d
     Out[16]:
     {'__header__': 'MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, written by Octave 2.1.71, 2006-06-09

14:24:13 UTC', 'version': '1.0', 'a': '11111'}

Cell arrays are fine (except for strings): ========OCTAVE========== >> a={5 [1,2,3] 'this'} a =

     {
       [1,1] = 5
       [1,2] =

         1  2  3

       [1,3] = this
     }

     >> save -mat-binary pythonfile.mat a
 =========PYTHON===========
     In [17]:d=io.loadmat('pythonfile.mat')

     In [18]:d
     Out[18]:
     {'__header__': 'MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, written by Octave 2.1.71, 2006-06-09

14:24:51 UTC', 'version': '1.0', 'a': array([5.0, [ 1. 2. 3.], 1111], dtype=object)}

Structs crash: ========OCTAVE========== >> clear a >> a.hello=5 a = { hello = 5 }

     >> a.this=[1,2,3]
     a =
     {
       hello = 5
       this =

         1  2  3

     }

     >> save -mat-binary pythonfile.mat a
 =========PYTHON===========
     In [19]:d=io.loadmat('pythonfile.mat')
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     exceptions.AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent

call last)

     /home/bblais/octave/work/mouse/<console>

     /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/io/mio.py in loadmat(name, dict,

appendmat, basename) 751 if not (0 in test_vals): # MATLAB version 5 format 752 fid.rewind() --> 753 thisdict = _loadv5(fid,basename) 754 if dict is not None: 755 dict.update(thisdict)

     /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/io/mio.py in _loadv5(fid, basename)
         688         try:
         689             var = var + 1
     --> 690             el, varname = _get_element(fid)
         691             if varname is None:
         692                 varname = '%s_%04d' % (basename,var)

     /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/io/mio.py in _get_element(fid)
         676
         677     # handle miMatrix type
     --> 678     el, name = _parse_mimatrix(fid,numbytes)
         679     return el, name
         680

     /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/io/mio.py in _parse_mimatrix(fid, bytes)
         597                 result[i].__dict__[element] = val
         598         result = squeeze(transpose(reshape(result,tupdims)))
     --> 599         if rank(result)==0: result = result.item()
         600
         601         # object is like a structure with but with a class name

     AttributeError: mat_struct instance has no attribute 'item'

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