Python Save As Matlab .mat File
OverviewThis Python package provides high level utilities to read/write avariety of Python types to/from HDF5 (Heirarchal Data Format) formattedfiles. This package also provides support for MATLAB MAT v7.3 formattedfiles, which are just HDF5 files with a different extension and someextra meta-data.All of this is done without pickling data. Pickling is bad for securitybecause it allows arbitrary code to be executed in the interpreter.
Onewants to be able to read possibly HDF5 and MAT files from untrustedsources, so pickling is avoided in this package.The package's documetation is found atThe package's source code is found atThe package is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license. Installation DependenciesThis package only supports Python = 2.7. Python 2.6 support was droppedin version 0.2.This package requires the numpy and h5py (= 2.3) packages to run.
Notethat support for h5py 2.1.x and 2.2.x has been dropped in version 0.2.An optional dependency is the scipy package. Installing by pipThis package is on.To install hdf5storage using pip, run the command: pip install hdf5storageInstalling from SourceTo install hdf5storage from source, download the package and theninstall the dependencies pip install -r requirements.txtThen to install the package, run the command with Python python setup.py installRunning TestsFor testing, the package nose (= 1.0) is additionally required. Thereare some tests that require Matlab and scipy to be installed and be inthe executable path. In addition, there are some tests that requirewith thepackage. Not having themmeans that those tests cannot be run (they will be skipped) but allthe other tests will run. To install all testing dependencies, otherthan scipy, Julia, Matlab run pip install -r requirementstests.txt.To run the tests python setup.py nosetestsBuilding DocumentationThe documentation additionally requires sphinx (= 1.7).
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Thedocumentation dependencies can be installed by pip install -r requirementsdoc.txtTo build the documentation python setup.py buildsphinxPython 2This package was designed and written for Python 3, and then backportedto Python 2.x. This does mean that a few things are a littleclunky in Python 2.
For example, Python 2 int and long types areboth mapped to the Python 3 int type. The storage format's metadatalooks more familiar from a Python 3 standpoint as well.The documentation is written in terms of Python 3 syntax and typesprimarily. Important Python 2 information beyond direct translations ofsyntax and types will be pointed out. Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5)HDF5 files (see ) are a commonly used fileformat for exchange of numerical data.
It has built in support for alarge variety of number formats (un/signed integers, floating pointnumbers, strings, etc.) as scalars and arrays, enums and compound types.It also handles differences in data representation on different hardwareplatforms (endianness, different floating point formats, etc.). As canbe imagined from the name, data is represented in an HDF5 file in ahierarchal form modelling a Unix filesystem (Datasets are equivalent tofiles, Groups are equivalent to directories, and links are supported).This package interfaces HDF5 files using the h5py package as opposed to the PyTables package. MATLAB MAT v7.3 file supportMATLAB MAT files version 7.3 and later areHDF5 files with a different file extension (.mat) and a veryspecific set of meta-data and storage conventions. This package providesread and write support for a limited set of Python and MATLAB types.SciPy has functions to read and write the older MATfile formats. This package has functions modeled after thescipy.io.savemat and scipy.io.loadmat functions, that have thesame names and similar arguments. The dispatch to the SciPy versions ifthe MAT file format is not an HDF5 based one.
Supported TypesThe supported Python and MATLAB types are given in the tables below.The tables assume that one has imported collections and numpy as: import collections as climport numpy as npThe table gives which Python types can be read and written, the firstversion of this package to support it, the numpy type it getsconverted to for storage (if type information is not written, thatwill be what it is read back as) the MATLAB class it becomes iftargetting a MAT file, and the first version of this package tosupport writing it so MATlAB can read it.
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So when I use the savemat command it tends to overwrite the file. Is there a possible way to append instead of overwriting? I know a work-around would be to put everything into a list, and then convert it to a dictionary. That won't work for me because I am trying to be RAM efficient. Doing online search I found thisthat won't work either because it involves pulling a data file in your ram memory to append it every single loop, which seems stupid from the speed perspective.I thought about appending to a numpy binary file, then pulling that in and saving it to a.mat file? I am not sure if this would be more RAM efficient than the first option though.thanks!