[Numpy-discussion] f2py pass by reference

[Sameer Grover]

On 12/04/11 23:36, Mathew Yeates wrote:
> I have
> subroutine foo (a)
>        integer a
>        print*, "Hello from Fortran!"
>        print*, "a=",a
>        a=2
>        end
>
> and from python I want to do
>>>> a=1
>>>> foo(a)
> and I want a's value to now be 2.
> How do I do this?
>
> Mathew
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this is possible 
with integers because they are treated as immuatable types in python. 
You can, however, do this with numpy arrays with "intent(inplace)". For 
example,

subroutine foo(a)
       integer::a(2)
!f2py intent(inplace)::a
       write(*,*) "Hello from Fortran!"
       write(*,*) "a=",a
       a(1)=2
end subroutine foo

a = np.array([1,2])
foo(a)
#a is now [2,2]