[SciPy-dev] Cython, f2py and GSoC

[David Huard]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Kurt Smith <kwmsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
> > On 3/26/2009 3:45 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> >
> >> Though we could always skip wrapping of functions which already are
> >> declared BIND(C), that's actually a nice idea. This would make it
> >> possible to write a wrapper manually and skip this overhead in extreme
> >> situations (where the Fortran compiler also cannot inline the call),
> >> while still having Python bindings generated.
> >
> >
> > If the idea is to take a Fortran module and autogenerate an .f03 file
> > with C bindings and a corresponding C/C++ header, I don't really see
> > where Cython comes in. Such a tool would be useful beyond the Python
> > community.
>
> The project has 2 'fronts': the Fortran <-> C/Cython/Python bindings
> end with a patched & updated f2py, and enhancing Cython to pass python
> buffers to external functions.
>
> The Fortran bindings generator would be able to generate bindings that
> are python-buffer aware.  Currently one has to include the array
> bounds information in the argument list for all fortran functions to
> work with f2py; one can't use the nice assumed-shape arrays in Fortran
> 90 and later.  We would be adding that functionality (among other
> things).  One could then seamlessly pass around multi-dimensional
> numpy arrays to external fortran functions that use assumed-shape
> arrays.


This would be great !

Have you thought of a way to handle ELEMENTAL statements ? Could they be
converted into ufuncs directly ?

David



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