Pyfort 3.0, the Python-Fortran connection tool, is available at ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/Pyfort-3.0.tgz. Documentation is included. News: Pyfort uses Distutils (www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig) both to install itself and to build and install extensions built with Pyfort. There are many new features to control the behavior of the tool, including provisions for optional automatic transposing, reversed-shape Fortran arrays, and valued scalars. A valued scalar is an integer argument to a Fortran routine that determines all or part of the shape of another argument. This fact can now be declared in the input. For example, if Fortran routine foo has arguments foo (n, x), where x is a real array of length n, you have the option to declare this as: subroutine foo (n, x) integer n = size(x) real x(n) end (size is the F90 intrinsic, and can take a second argument to indicate the dimension if x has more than one) Then the Python user would call foo as foo(x), and not need to specifiy the redundant information that n is x's length. Some persons do not want any of the features mentioned. They may rest assured that declaring all arguments intent(inout) will result in what some have called a "raw" interface. REFERENCE: <P><A HREF="http://dubois.simplenet.com/python">Pyfort 3.0</A> - Fortran/Python Connection Tool. (11-Jan-2000) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------