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f2py executable not getting installed on windows

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According to the docs for f2py, which is installed with numpy, it should be sufficient to execute this command at the shell to call f2py:

f2py

But this fails because on windows, the only file installed is f2py.py, which is not accessible as f2py at the shell.

At one point, I don’t remember when, a script/executable was packaged along with the script that did this properly…

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Created 7 years ago
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awbirdsallcommented, Nov 18, 2016

Stumbled across this discussion when trying to fix the same issue as @ianhbell. I found an existing commit that addresses this by making python -m numpy.f2py executable from the command line: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5565.

This works on my Windows machine. It’s still a discrepancy with the docs, but it definitely beats typing in the full path, and it seems to play nice with my different conda environments.

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charriscommented, Aug 22, 2018

Leaving this open for a bit.

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