Forgive me if this is a basic question. I have a matrix stored in an IDL save file. I have been trying to read it in using PyCall and scipy.io.readsav
julia> using PyCall julia> @pyimport scipy.io as io julia> a=io.readsav("weight_and_dist.sav") /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/io/idl.py:167: UserWarning: warning: empty strings are now set to '' instead of None warnings.warn("warning: empty strings are now set to '' instead of None") Dict{Any,Any} with 8 entries: "w_matrix" => PyObject array([[ 1.68552301e-101, 2.356978… "m02_fbm" => PyObject rec.array([ (array([[ 1.34499655e+10… "pitch" => PyObject array([-0.89999998, -0.70000005, -0.5… "mean_fbm" => PyObject array([[ 1.31980645e+10, 3.3166579… "v17_fbm" => PyObject rec.array([ (array([[ 1.30541168e+10… "energy" => PyObject array([ 5., 15., 25., 35., 45., … "m10_fbm" => PyObject rec.array([ (array([[ 1.26698307e+10… "p2_fbm" => PyObject rec.array([ (array([[ 1.36183452e+10… julia> w_matrix = a["w_matrix"] PyObject array([[ 1.68552301e-101, 2.35697831e-066, 3.61510788e-046, ..., 3.25287399e+003, 6.30708487e+003, 6.26874721e+003], [ 3.42516635e-103, 9.95975928e-068, 2.55145289e-047, ..., 2.85362314e+003, 5.95774610e+003, 6.24852521e+003], [ 6.73923741e-105, 4.07514829e-069, 1.74358145e-048, ..., 2.47492336e+003, 5.58385846e+003, 6.20714822e+003], ..., [ 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, ..., 4.78256276e-049, 6.15881422e-073, 2.18231882e-100], [ 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, ..., 2.07619108e-050, 1.37890846e-074, 2.53424699e-102], [ 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, ..., 8.63614392e-052, 2.95848174e-076, 2.81982090e-104]]) julia> w = convert(Array{Float64,2},w_matrix) ERROR: PyError (PyFloat_AsDouble) <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> TypeError('only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars',) in pyerr_check at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/exception.jl:58 in convert at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/conversions.jl:75 in py2array at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/conversions.jl:339 in convert at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/numpy.jl:430 julia> w = convert(Array{Float64,2},w_matrix) ERROR: PyError (PyFloat_AsDouble) <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> TypeError('only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars',) in pyerr_check at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/exception.jl:58 in convert at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/conversions.jl:75 in py2array at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/conversions.jl:339 in convert at /home/lstagner/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/numpy.jl:430 Could someone direct me towards the correct way to convert PyObjects to Arrays.