Below is a list of tuples as returned by scipy.io.whosmat("example.mat"), one for each array (or other object) in the file. Each tuple contains the name, shape and data type of the array.

[('Temp', (272, 1), 'double'),
 ('time', (272, 1), 'double'),
 ('tth', (1, 638), 'double'),
 ('ekev', (1, 1), 'double'),
 ('q', (1, 638), 'double'),
 ('intensity', (272, 638), 'double')]


