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Importing matlab cell array (.mat) into a python list - scanato - Nov-15-2017 Hi! I'm trying to import a .mat file that contains a cell array. In matlab I did this: a={'element1';'element2';'element3'}; save('m.mat','-v7','a') I used '-v7' because, in python, I use 'scipy.io' and 'loadmat' that can be used only with version 7. In python: import scipy.io as sio i=sio.loadmat('m.mat') i.keys() And I get: dict_keys(['__header__', '__version__', '__globals__', 'a']) Finally, I use the key 'a': k=i['a'] In the variable explorer I get k, that is a object type but I can't access to its elements. How can I convert it to a list? Thank you