F2PY

This release has new statements (usercode and pymethoddef), support for character arrays and arrays of strings, a new function as_column_major_storage(), a new macro F2PY_REPORT_ON_ARRAY_COPY, numarray support, improved support for Win32 and Mac OS X platforms, support for more than 13 Fortran compilers, and bugfixes.

The issue with Fortran and C multi-dimensional array storage ordering is finally resolved. F2PY generated wrappers automatically carry out all necessary transformations, trying hard to minimize any performance hits. As a result, multi-dimensional arrays in Python and Fortran have now exactly the same signatures. The F2PY Users Guide has been throughly revised to describe and illustrate all latest F2PY features such as wrapping Fortran 77 COMMON blocks, Fortran 90 module data, including Fortran 90 module ALLOCATABLE arrays, etc.

An update to work witn Numeric Python 20.x.

Initial freshmeat announcement.