On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Alex van der Spek <zd...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to call functions from FORTRAN dlls in Python? Is it > even possible? I browsed the documentation for Python 2.6.1 and the Python/C > API comes close to what I would like to do but it is strictly limited to C. > > Unfortunately the passing of arguments in C and FORTRAN is very different, > not to mention the differences with strings where FORTRAN expects a hidden > length argument. It could call the FORTRAN dll from C and call the C > functions from Python but is that my only option? > > For reference: I am using Python 2.6.1 FORTRAN powerstation 4.0. It is not > an option to translate the FORTRAN code to C (using f2c) as the source code > is the official ASME version of calculating steam tables. > > I've done it before by creating C wrapper function and it was relatively painless, using C wrappers means that it's much easier to integrate into other languages as well if you need to do more integration down the line. Katie -- CoderStack http://www.coderstack.co.uk The Software Developer Job Board
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