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Python bindings to interesting matlab libraries for data analysis
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Look at the new python interface for matlab #9

Closed sdvillal closed 9 years ago

sdvillal commented 9 years ago

Our current solution to pimping matlab uses pymatbridge for code dispatch and oct2py for data transfer. How does it compare with the new (R2014b) matlab <-> python interface? This new feature allows both:

In case it would be competitive (handle properly type conversion, is numpy aware, make faster in-memory transfers, control better memory de-allocation, it is not too buggy, it is not a pain to debug...) we could create a new MatlabEngine implementation using it.

It seems to me that this is not a separate toolbox.

sdvillal commented 9 years ago

Data transfer back to python world is really slow and not numpy aware. Until it improves, this is not really an option.

sdvillal commented 9 years ago

But at the moment it is the best option for code evaluation, faster than matlab_wrapper, more robust than pymatbridge, provides the best experience for error reporting and can be nicely combined with file-based data transfer. Install cannot be automated and it is only matlab 2014b+, but we will stick with it while still supporting matlab_wrapper and pymatbridge.