I am currently taking a Neural Network course, and I am trying to load a .mat file from Python using scipy.io.loadmat(filename), but I keep getting the following error message:
ValueError: Unknown mat file type, version 101, 58
The same message occured when I tried loading a .m file, rather than .mat file, using scipy.io.loadmat().
I don't know how to resolve this issue, so I would really appreciate if someone on here could help me out.
For people coming over this issue again. You can use numpy.loadtxt() to read .mat files generated by Octave.
For example. In Octave:
octave:1> arr1 = [1,2]
octave:2> arr2 = [2,3]
octave:3> save mydata.mat arr1 arr2
Then read mydata.mat in Python Interpreter:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> data = np.loadtxt('mydata.mat')
>>> data
array([[1., 2.],
[2., 3.]])
You can use MATLAB Engine API to run .m files and MATLAB functions. it can also load .mat files as well, but could be a bit slow. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab-engine-for-python.html