Create numpy array from matrix declared inside .m matlab file

Question

A coworker left some data files I want to analyze with Numpy.

Each file is a matlab file, say data.m, and have the following formatting (but with a lot more

Answer 1

You could feed an iterator to np.genfromtxt:

import numpy as np
import re

with open(filename, 'r') as f:
    lines = (re.sub(r'[^-+.0-9 ]+', '', line) for line in f)
    arr = np.genfromtxt(lines)

print(arr)

yields

[[-24.92 -23.66 -22.55]
 [-24.77 -23.56 -22.45]
 [-24.54 -23.64 -22.56]]

Thanks to Bitwise for clueing me in to this answer.