[f2py] ImportError when importing object created by F2PY, and bug report

[pearu at cens.ioc.ee]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 powrsurg at gmail.com wrote:

> The reason for the commented declaratins of mxbits, vst, and wst has
> to do with what I believe is a bug in F2PY. It seems that F2PY does
> not allow a previously declared parameter variable to be used twice
> within the declaration of another parameter varaible. For example,
> 
>       parameter (maxn=8000)
>       parameter (mxbits=(maxn*(maxn+1)+29)/30)
> 
> When looking at the _module.c file F2PY generates, it seems that F2PY
> replaces the first maxn with 8000, but does not do so for the second
> and thus creates an error. The only workaround for this was to comment
> out that line and replace it with the computed value of mxbits.
> 
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> I hope including this all in one e-mail made sense. If someone could
> help me with this I would GREATLY apprecial it.

What f2py version are you using? I suggest trying f2py from CVS, if I
remember correctly then bugs related to evaluating parameters have been
fixed in CVS.

Pearu