How to efficiently convert Matlab engine arrays to numpy ndarray?

Question

I am currently working on a project where I need do some steps of processing with legacy Matlab code (using the Matlab engine) and the rest in Python (numpy).

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Answer 1

Tim's answer is great for 2D arrays, but a way to adapt it to N dimensional arrays is to use the order parameter of np.reshape() :

np_x = np.array(x._data).reshape(x.size, order='F')