Guillem Borrell i Nogueras wrote: ¿How does ctypes or f2py handle the _common_ structures
present in fortran 77?
I think that's covered (for f2py) by this: http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/usersguide/#common-blocks ¿Are all they allocated at load? ¿Do they work
exactly as they were called from a fortran executable and the main program is aware of all the _commons_ and allocates the storage when it is asked for?
I'm pretty sure that's the case.
He has been programming for more than 40 years and I could not get him much into object oriented programing, however he found python+numpy+scipy a very promising tool.
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