What is the equivalent of 'fread' from Matlab in Python?

Question

I have practically no knowledge of Matlab, and need to translate some parsing routines into Python. They are for large files, that are themselves divided into \'blocks\', an

Answer 1

Really though, I want to know how to replicate [A, count] = fread(fid, 3, 'uint32');

In Matlab, one of fread()'s signatures is fread(fileID, sizeA, precision). This reads in the first sizeA elements (not bytes) of a file, each of a size sufficient for precision. In this case, since you're reading in uint32, each element is of size 32 bits, or 4 bytes.

So, instead, try io.readline(12) to get the first 3 4-byte elements from the file.