title: "Converting" Numpy arrays to Matlab and vice versa
body: <p>I am looking for a way to pass NumPy arrays to Matlab. </p>
  
  <p>I've managed to do this by storing the array into an image using <code>scipy.misc.imsave</code> and then loading it using <code>imread</code>, but this of course causes the matrix to contain values between 0 and 256 instead of the 'real' values. </p>
  
  <p>Taking the product of this matrix divided by 256, and the maximum value in the original NumPy array gives me the correct matrix, but I feel that this is a bit tedious.  </p>
  
  <p>is there a simpler way?</p>