[SciPy-dev] matlab5 sparse IO

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

> Sure, I can take a look tomorrow morning.

Excellent - thanks very much.

> To find the "more fundamental" issues Nathan referred to, I'll take a look at
>http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/matlab/matfile_format.pdf

That was my primary source.  I think the V5 writing was a patch kindly
provided - that I didn't check carefully enough.  I had only put in
the structure for it but didn't implement it myself.

> I assume the
> reader functions correctly, since the unit tests pass and I see

I believe it does - but it would be good hear from anyone who can't
read a matlab .mat file...

Thanks a lot,

Matthew