Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > I still don't see why default arguments like None won't do the trick. > If The argument _can_ > be some value (let's say an int) or None, you still could go for a > default value like () or any other value > from a different domain.
"None" works perfectly. Someone else on the thread suggested it. I did not know about the special intrinsic. >> Unrelated question, how does one call a fortran 95 subroutine from python >> ? I need really high speed of execution for that call (needed for each >> measurement point, and is used to calculate some parameters for the >> excitation for the next measurement point) and a scripting language would >> not cut it. > > Didn't ever try that, but either do it in C, or if fortran code can be > exposed as C lib, use that (ctypes is your friend). I'm not aware of a > fortran binding - but I never tried to find one. Basically Python can > interface with everything that can behave like C - which is the least > common denominator I think, so there should be some way. Hmm. Thanks for the pointers here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
