f2py and common blocks /Carl

[Carl]

I have been experimenting with f2py and some fortran code that I want to
port to Python.

I have the following fortran file (TEST_00.f):

C FILE: TEST_00.f
      SUBROUTINE FOO(WORK)
      IMPLICIT REAL*8 (A-H, O-Z)
      COMMON /SIZES/ NINT
      DIMENSION WORK(NINT)
      DIMENSION USOL(NINT)
      DO 10 I=1,NINT
         WORK(I)=0.0
         PRINT *, "In Fortran WORK(I)=", WORK(I)
 10   CONTINUE
      END
      DO 10 I=1,NINT
         USOL(I)=0.0
         PRINT *, "In Fortran USOL(I)=", USOL(I)
 10   CONTINUE
      END
C END OF TEST_00.f

and the following signature file (generated by f2py TEST_00.f -m TEST_00 -h
TEST_00.pyf):

python module TEST_00 ! in
    interface  ! in :TEST_00
        subroutine foo(work) ! in :TEST_00:TEST_00.f
            real*8 dimension(nint) :: work
            integer optional,check(len(work)>=nint),depend(work) ::
nint=len(work)
            common /sizes/ nint
        end subroutine foo
    end interface
end python module TEST_00

When compiling (with f2py -c TEST_00.pyf TEST_00.f) I get the following
error message:

/tmp/tmpl75SQT/src/TEST_00module.c:149: error: `nint' undeclared (first use
in this function)

Question: How can one declare arrays passed as parameters via common block
variables?

Yours/ Carl