...still starting up...

[tnat1031]

Hello,

This looks like a very useful library and I would very much like to take advantage of it. However, I am having a problem getting it working. I am logging into a unix server via ssh. The server has installed 64 bit python version 2.6.5 and 64 bit matlab version 8.0.0.783. I start python and run the following commands:

from pymatbridge import Matlab
MLAB = Matlab(matlab='path_to_matlab')
MLAB.start()

after which the console simply outputs ...still starting up... endlessly. path_to_matlab is the path to the matlab executable, obtained by running 'which matlab'. Any idea what could be going wrong?

Thank you very much.

[gavin-s-smith]

I had the same problem. In my case it was the fact I had a proxy for my system defined. The issue is discussed on stackoverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7012227/python-urllib-and-urllib2-not-opening-localhost-urls

The solution is to change the method _open_page in pymatbridge to:

def _open_page(self, page_name, arguments={}, timeout=10):
self.running = True
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
page = opener.open('%s/%s' % (self.server, page_name), urllib.urlencode(arguments), timeout)
self.running = False
return json.loads(page.read())