F2PY Users Guide and Reference Manual¶

The purpose of theF2PY –Fortran to Python interface generator–is to provide a connection between Python and Fortranlanguages. F2PY is a part ofNumPy (numpy.f2py) and also available as astandalone command line toolf2py whennumpy is installed thatfacilitates creating/building Python C/API extension modules that make itpossible

• to call Fortran 77/90/95 external subroutines and Fortran 90/95module subroutines as well as C functions;
• to access Fortran 77COMMON blocks and Fortran 90/95 module data,including allocatable arrays

from Python.