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MATLAB wrapper for Python

Project description

MATLAB wrapper for Python

Name:

matlab_wrapper

Author:

Marek Rudnicki

Email:

marekrud@gmail.com

URL:

https://github.com/mrkrd/matlab_wrapper

License:

GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)

Description

matlab_wrapper allows you to use MATLAB in an convenient way from your Python scripts and interactive shell. MATLAB session is started in the background and appears as a regular Python module.

matlab_wrapper talks to MATLAB engine library using ctypes, so you do not have to compile anything!

Usage

Initialize:

import matlab_wrapper
matlab = matlab_wrapper.MatlabSession()

Low level:

matlab.put('a', 12.3)
matlab.eval('b = a * 2')
b = matlab.get('b')

Workspace:

s = matlab.workspace.sin([0.1, 0.2, 0.3])

sorted,idx = matlab.workspace.sort([3,1,2], nout=2)

matlab.workspace.a = 12.3
b = matlab.workspace.b

Requirements

  • Python (2.7)

  • Matlab (tested with 2013b)

  • Numpy (1.8)

Platforms

  • GNU/Linux (working)

  • Windows (coming soon)

  • OSX (unknown)

Installation

pip install matlab_wrapper

Issues and Bugs

https://github.com/mrkrd/matlab_wrapper/issues

Alternatives

(last updated on June 17, 2014)

  • pymatlab

    • pure Python, no compilation, using ctypes (good)

    • quite raw (ugly)

    • memory leaks (bad)

  • mlabwrap

    • cool interface, mlab.sin() (good)

    • needs compilation (bad)

    • not much development (bad)

  • mlab

    • similar interface to mlabwrap (good)

    • using raw pipes (hmm)

    • there is another very old package with the same name (ugly)

  • pymatbridge

    • actively developed (good)

    • client-server architecture with ZeroMQ and JSON, complex (ugly)

    • missing basic functions, there’s no put (bad)

    • nice ipython notebook support (good)

Acknowledgments

matlab_wrapper was forked from pymatlab.

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