Re: [Numpy-discussion] f2py - a recap

Howdy, On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Stéfan van der Walt wrote:

2008/7/23 Fernando Perez :

I agree (with your previous e-mail) that it would be good to have some documentation, so if you could give me some pointers on *what* to document (I haven't used f2py much), then I'll try my best to get around to it.

Well, I think my 'recap' message earlier in this thread points to a few issues that can probably be addressed quickly (the 'instead' error in the help, the doc/docs dichotomy needs to be cleaned up so a single documentation directory exists, etc). I'm also attaching a set of very old notes I wrote years ago on f2py that you are free to use in any way you see fit. I gave them a 2-minute rst treatment but didn't edit them at all, so they may be somewhat outdated (I originally wrote them in 2002 I think). If Pearu has moved to greener pastures, f2py could certainly use an adoptive parent. It happens to be a really important piece of infrastructure and for the most part it works fairly well. I think a litlte bit of cleanup/doc integration with the rest of numpy is probably all that's needed, so it could be a good project for someone to adopt that would potentially be low-demand yet quite useful. Cheers, f