# Fortran package manager or python package manager?

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I don’t have experience with f2py but @melissawm does, and perhaps others. That would be a different approach, orthogonal to fpm.

With fpm we’d need to enable building a shared (.so) library, which you’d then interface from Python via ctypes module.

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