`scipy.io.matlab._mio:mat_reader_factory`

Signature

def mat_reader_factory ( file_name , appendmat = True , ** kwargs )

Create reader for matlab .mat format files.

file_name : str: Name of the mat file (do not need .mat extension if appendmat==True) Can also pass open file-like object.
appendmat : bool, optional: True to append the .mat extension to the end of the given filename, if not already present. Default is True.
byte_order : str or None, optional: None by default, implying byte order guessed from mat file. Otherwise can be one of ('native', '=', 'little', '<', 'BIG', '>').
mat_dtype : bool, optional: If True, return arrays in same dtype as would be loaded into MATLAB (instead of the dtype with which they are saved).
squeeze_me : bool, optional: Whether to squeeze unit matrix dimensions or not.
chars_as_strings : bool, optional: Whether to convert char arrays to string arrays.
matlab_compatible : bool, optional: Returns matrices as would be loaded by MATLAB (implies squeeze_me=False, chars_as_strings=False, mat_dtype=True, struct_as_record=True).
struct_as_record : bool, optional: Whether to load MATLAB structs as NumPy record arrays, or as old-style NumPy arrays with dtype=object. Setting this flag to False replicates the behavior of SciPy version 0.7.x (returning numpy object arrays). The default setting is True, because it allows easier round-trip load and save of MATLAB files.

matreader : MatFileReader object: Initialized instance of MatFileReader class matching the mat file type detected in filename.
file_opened : bool: Whether the file was opened by this routine.