Parsing .mat generated by the latest matlab requires h5py, which is very different from using scipy.

[MichaelEhrlichman]

I encountered this bug when looking at
https://github.com/slaclab/lcls-tools/blob/main/examples/matlab_image_analysis.py

The error message is:

Error loading mat file ProfMon-PROF_COL0_535-2024-06-09-175304.mat: Please use HDF reader for matlab v7.3 files, e.g. h5py

Note that using h5py to parse .mat files is very different from using scipy and can be rather awkward.

[MattKing06]

Hi @MichaelEhrlichman, would it be possible for you to upload the matlab file in question. I've tried testing this example with the datasets we have in the test directory and they must have been created with a different version of matlab as I didn't get the error you mention.

It'd be good to get coverage for files with differing matlab versions.

[MichaelEhrlichman]

OrbitGrid--2023-06-04-152116.mat.gz

[MichaelEhrlichman]

Check out the static/bpmList data type.
Here is a Slack discussion on this topic.
https://slac.slack.com/archives/C9UN7J97B/p1718063303838939