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 am interested in a solution that will work on Windows (XP and Vista) as
well as Linux (Ubuntu 10.4) although the latter would not use dlls but code
resources.
I am a beginner in Python. The fact that I still use and can use FORTRAN
gives away my age. Mixed language programming is not an issue for me (C/VB,
VB/FORTRAN, C/FORTRAN) but Python is new. Just pointing me to relevant
documentation would be helpful in its own right.
Thank you in advance,
Alex van der Spek
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