Unable to open scipy.io.savemat mat file

[Dickon Humphrey]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  7-Jul-2009, Dickon Humphrey wrote:
>
> | Bug report for Octave 3.2.0 configured for i686-pc-mingw32
> | 
> | Description:
> | -----------
> | 
> | Octave will not open a mat file saved using scipy.io.savemat. I believe 
> | the version of scipy used is 0.7.0, which has recently been reworked. 
> | The release notes for scipy 0.7.0 state: 
> | 
> | 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``
> | 
> | The error I get when opening the attached file is:
> | 
> | > load D66_TH_Dcr2_POLG-RNAi-A2_small.mat
> | error: unable to resize object to fewer than 2 dimensions
> | 
> | The code that produces the mat file is the 'WriteMAT' function in the 
> | attached python file from an application called Ctrax 
> | (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ctrax/ ).
> | 
> | Repeat-By:
> | ---------
> | 
> | > load <file exported by scipy.io.savemat>.mat
>
> Instead of sending a scipy script, how about sending a (small) .mat
> file created by scipy that shows the problem?
>
> jwe
>   
Sorry, our mail server here stripped out the mat file. Please find 
attached a zipped version.
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