# F90wrap: an automated tool for constructing deep Python interfaces to modern Fortran codes **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 21, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/f90wrap-an-automated-tool-for-constructing-deep-python-interfaces-to-modern-fortran-codes/513 "2020-12-21T21:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beliavsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Beliavsky](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Beliavsky)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/f90wrap-an-automated-tool-for-constructing-deep-python-interfaces-to-modern-fortran-codes/513/1 "2020-12-21T21:26:10Z")
[f90wrap: an automated tool for constructing deep Python interfaces to modern Fortran codes](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ab82d2) by James R Kermode Published 5 May 2020 Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 32, Number 30 Abstract f90wrap is a tool to automatically generate Python extension modules which interface to Fortran libraries that makes use of derived types. It builds on the capabilities of the popular f2py utility by generating a simpler Fortran 90 interface to the original Fortran code which is then suitable for wrapping with f2py, together with a higher-level Pythonic wrapper that makes the existance of an additional layer transparent to the final user. f90wrap has been used to wrap a number of large software packages of relevance to the condensed matter physics community, including the QUIP molecular dynamics code and the CASTEP density functional theory code. [f90wrap is at Github](https://github.com/jameskermode/f90wrap) related thread: [Fortran package manager or python package manager?](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-package-manager-or-python-package-manager/133)