F2PY - Fortran to Python Interface Generator, Version 2.32.225 --------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce the sixth public release of F2PY. The purpose of the F2PY project is to provide a connection between Python and Fortran programming languages. For more information, see http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/ Download source: http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/2.x/F2PY-2-latest.tar.gz What's new? ------------ It has been almost a year from the previous release of F2PY. This release comes with a number of improvements, most important ones are listed as follows: - The issue with a Fortran and C multi-dimensional array storage ordering is finally resolved. F2PY generated wrappers automatically carry out all necessary transformations, trying hard to minimize any performance hits. As a result, the end users of F2PY generated wrappers need not to worry about this issue anymore, multi-dimensional arrays in Python and Fortran have now exactly the same signatures. - Improved wrapping C functions with F2PY. - F2PY Users Guide has been throughly revised to describe and illustrate all latest F2PY features such as wrapping Fortran 77 COMMON blocks, Fortran 90 module data, including Fortran 90 module ALLOCATABLE arrays, etc. The F2PY Users Guide is composed using the Python Docutils tool and is available here: http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/usersguide/ - F2PY has new site for unit testing. - F2PY uses scipy_distutils from SciPy (www.scipy.org) project for compiling Fortran sources and building extension modules. Currently, the following Fortran 77/90 compilers are described by scipy_distutils: Absoft Sun SGI Intel Itanium NAG Compaq Digital Gnu VAST - Finally, F2PY has been extensively used/tested for wrapping large Fortran/C libraries, such as, LAPACK, BLAS, ATLAS, FFTW, FFTPACK, etc. (see SciPy project for more information). This experience has been a very important source for ideas how to make binding Fortran/C codes to Python easier and more robust. Enjoy, Pearu Peterson --------------- <P><A HREF="http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/">F2PY 2.32.225</A> - The Fortran to Python Interface Generator (08-Dec-02)