Python bindings

[stzukowski]

Dear FreeFEM developers,

I'm working on a project involving solving a PDE in a domain (using FreeFem) and then, using the calculated solution, evolving my system (implemented in Python). For now, I was using some temporary files to pass the information between two processes, but I would like to find a more efficient and elegant solution. As far, I've found two other projects trying to address this problem (both named pyFreeFem):

• https://gitlab.com/florian.feppon/pyfreefem/
• https://github.com/odevauchelle/pyFreeFem

However, they are also using temporary files as a solution.

I'm interested in the possibility of binding the FreeFem code to Python. I'm not an expert, but there are many Python-C++ wrappers (SWIG, pybind11, cppyy, etc. ) which seem to, in principle, be able to perform such task. Do you think such a feature was already used somewhere or could be incorporated into FreeFem code?

Best regards and thank you for your work,
Stanisław