Hi, I have some fortran code that I'm trying to wrap with f2py. The f2py mailing list seems really dead, so I thought I'd try asking here. My problem is that I can't get a routine to return a string (using the f2py from numpy 1.0.3). The Fortran looks like this: subroutine uvDatGta(object,aval) implicit none character object*(*),aval*(*) ... where object is an input and aval is an output. I've tried passing aval as a numpy.chararray and using all sorts of intent() flags in the f2py headers. No matter what I do, though, f2py seems to want to treat aval as a char *, and it seems that it doesn't have the facilities to map strings as outputs from routines. Is there a way to get f2py to make this work? Ideally, I'd like to be able to go aval = uvdatgta (object) and get a plain Python string back, but I can always write a wrapper in Python around some chararray stuff. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Williams / pwilliams@astro.berkeley.edu Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley