How do I call a matlab code (.m file) using python?

Question

I have a .m matlab file which needs to be called from python. I tried using pymatlab 0.2.3 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymatlab/files/ but, while proceeding when I reached the second step

session=pymatlab.session_factory()

I encountered an error that showed " init () got an unexpected keyword argument path at line 51 of sessionfactory.py" I searched the error online and saw a solution that asked me to change line 51

session = MatlabSession(path=basedir,bufsize=output_buffer_size)

to :

session = MatlabSession(basedir,bufsize=output_buffer_size)

Even after that I could not proceed further. Can anyone help me call a .m file from python?

Answer 1

Try importing matlab.engine

import matlab.engine
eng = matlab.engine.start_matlab()
number_of_args_out = 0 # Number of arguments the matlab program returns
eng.your_script(nargout=number_of_args_out)