In article <e0a956ea-ab2a-4651-809d-ee76b11a6...@b15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote: > >You also made this claim regarding Fortran's C interop with strings: > >"No, I mean things like 'Kilroy was here'. Currently, Fortran's C >interoperability supports only strings of length 1, and you have >to kludge them up as arrays. That doesn't work very well, especially >for things like function results." > >This obviosuly proves you wrong:
Er, no, it doesn't. I suggest that you read what I said more carefully - and the Fortran standard. As I said, you can kludge them up, and that is precisely one such kludge - but, as I also said, it doesn't work very well. However, I shall take your answer as a "yes, I want to do that". Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list