The last post looking at using the Python F2Py package said:

It is also necessary to install a Fortran compiler.  After some trial and error I found that the MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) package worked well.

Trying some simple examples on a new computer however yielded a variety of “unable to find” errors, and a search on each returned a range of conflicting suggestions on how they might be fixed.  Eventually the following (relatively straightforward) process worked for me:

• Uninstall Python and install the latest version of Anaconda Python, appropriate to the operating system.  I actually had 2 versions of 32 bit Python in different folders, on 64 bit Windows, which may or may not have contributed to the problems.
• Install the version of MinGW provided with the Anaconda download, from the command line using:
  conda install mingw
  from the top level Anaconda folder.  There is an installation package available on the MinGW site, but I couldn’t get F2Py to work with that installation.
• That’s all

I had previously installed Visual Studio Express 2015.  It is not clear to me whether this is required or not.

After this process I found that:

• The simple examples from the F2Py tutorial worked without a problem.
• Any example with a PRINT* statement in the Fortran code still does not compile.  I haven’t found a solution to this one yet, other than avoiding PRINT statements.
• The callback example from the tutorial worked after adding a line to declare the FUN variable as REAL*8.  More on this one later.

I hope to have some more detailed and useful examples to present in the near future!