Python wrapper for selected SLICOT routines, notably including solvers for Riccati, Lyapunov and Sylvester equations.

Prerequisite:

You will need Numpy, a fortran compiler such as gfortran and BLAS/LAPACK libraries for building Slycot.

On Debian derivates you can install all the above with a single command:

apt-get build-dep python-scipy

Installing:

Unpack to a directory of your choice, say /path/to/slycot_src/, and execute:

$ cd /path/to/slycot_src/

python setup.py install

Where # is for commands that needs to be executed as root/administrator. If the build fails and you are on a 64bit OS you may want to try

$ cd /path/to/slycot_src/ $ python setup.py config_fc --arch="-march=x86-64" build

python setup.py install

To-Do:

• write unit tests
• add examples in the doc-strings