[SciPy-dev] matFile module

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Heiko Henkelmann wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> due to popular demand on this list I'm giving you the chance to look at a
> module which I'm currently developing. I'm not done with it but I figured in
> terms of avoiding duplicated efforts it would be a good point to show it to
> you. It is a pure python implementation and enables users to read ML Version
> 5 compatible files. At this point it is able to read anything but sparse
> matrices.
> 
> Not having looked at Nigel Wades matfile I can't tell you what the
> differences to my implementation are.
> 
> Feedback, especially on cross platform compatibility and every kind of test
> results would be very welcome.

I'm very much in favor of this kind of approach over a C-written 
approach.  I'm not sure what speed issues there may be.  But, this looks 
like it could be dropped into SciPy pretty easily if enough people agree.

-Travis O.