from scipy.io import loadmat
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from numpy import np
import numpy as np

mat = loatmat('2015_218/G_2015_218_0001_GL_N_VIR.mat')
print(type(mat))

matkeys = mat.keys()

print(matkeys)

sst = mat['sst']

print(type(sst))

plt.show(sst)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wraptest.py", line 2, in <module>
    from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 132, in <module>
    if not compare_versions(six.__version__, '1.3'):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'