Loading hdf5 matlab strings into Python

Question

I\'m running into trouble reading a hdf5 matlab 7.3 file with Python. I\'m using h5py 2.0.1.

I can read all the matrices that are stored in the file, but I can not r

Answer 1

You can get the original Matlab class name of Group and Dataset objects by

dataset.attrs['MATLAB_class']

if dataset contains a string, it will return b'char'.