I have a question regarding the pymatbridge. I have been trying to use it as an alternative to the Matlab Engine, which for some reason broke on me recently and I haven't been able to get it to work again. I followed the instructions from Github and when testing my script in the terminal, the zmq connection works great, and the connection gets established every single time. But when I copy paste what's working in the terminal into a python script, the connection fails every single time. I'm not familiar with zmq, but the problem seems to be systematic, so I was wondering if there was something obvious I'm missing. Here is my code.
import os
import glob
import csv
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
#Alternative to matlab Engine: pymatbridge
import pymatbridge as pymat
matlab = pymat.Matlab(executable='/Applications/MATLAB_R2015a.app/bin/matlab')
#Directory of Matlab functions
Matlab_dir = '/Users/cynthiagerlein/Dropbox (Personal)/Scatterometer/Matlab/'
#Directory with SIR data
SIR_dir = '/Volumes/blahblahblah/OriginalData/'
#Directory with matrix data
Data_dir = '/Volumes/blahblahblah/Data/'
#Create list of names of SIR files to open and save as matrices
os.chdir(SIR_dir)
#Save list of SIR file names
SIR_File_List = glob.glob("*.sir")
#Launch Pymatbridge
matlab.start()
for the_file in SIR_File_List:
print 'We are on file ', the_file
Running_name = SIR_dir + the_file
image = matlab.run_func('/Users/cynthiagerlein/Dropbox\ \(Personal\)/Scatterometer/Matlab/loadsir.m', Running_name)
np.savetxt(Data_dir+the_file[:22] + '.txt.gz',np.array(image['result']) )
I ended up using matlab_wrapper instead, and it's working great and was A LOT easier to install and set up, but I am just curious to understand why the pymatbridge is failing in my script but working in terminal. By the way, I learned about both pymatbridge and matlab_wrapper in the amazing answer to this post (scroll down, 3rd answer).
