F2PY Users Guide and Reference Manual¶
The purpose of the F2PY
–Fortran to Python interface generator–
is to provide a connection between Python and Fortran
languages. F2PY is a part of NumPy (numpy.f2py
) and also available as a
standalone command line tool f2py
when numpy
is installed that
facilitates creating/building Python C/API extension modules that make it
possible
- to call Fortran 77/90/95 external subroutines and Fortran 90/95 module subroutines as well as C functions;
- to access Fortran 77
COMMON
blocks and Fortran 90/95 module data, including allocatable arrays
from Python.