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SciPy Matlab Arrays

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Summary

The scipy.io module provides a loadmat function to read the resulting MATLAB storage file so that old data can be reused in Python. In addition, the savemat function allows writing Python arrays to .mat format. This makes it easier to collaborate between MATLAB and Python environments in a single project.

Key points

Loadmat reads the .mat file from MATLAB into the Python dictionary
Savemat stores the Python array to the .mat format
The result of the loadmat is a dictionary containing the name of the MATLAB variable
The .mat format supports various data array types

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