Octave support?

[rwogburn]

Has anyone tried using this in Octave?

The biggest difficulty with embedding Python into Matlab in this way seems to be that Matlab has its own versions of most libraries, which conflict with the system libraries used by Python and Python modules. As far as I know Octave just uses the standard system libraries, so this shouldn't be an issue.

[kw]

This project is unmaintained, as I no longer have any use (or license) for Matlab. I hear that Matlab has its own version these days so there's probably not much reason for anyone to maintain it.

I haven't tried compiling it against Octave, but it sounds like it might work. Oct2Py might be better for most use cases. The main benefit of pymex is that the two engines share memory space (no shuttling data with MAT files) and the bridge is bidirectional (either engine can call into the other engine).

[rwogburn]

OK, thanks! Mathworks does have a Matlab engine for python, but this (and Oct2Py) are about running Matlab / Octave code from Python, while I'm mostly interested in the other way around. Your implementation is quite nice, so I might try it out.

[kw]

In addition to the old engine, they've also got a newer thing that is not entirely unlike pymex:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started_buik_wp-3.html

They don't have the bidirectional bridge that I can see, but I don't blame them - their extension API isn't remotely thread-safe, so it can be dangerous to call in from the Python side.

[rwogburn]

Thanks, that really must be new.