title: How to force numpy array order to fortran style?
body: <p>I am using quite a lot of fortran libraries to do some mathematical computation. So all the arrays in numpy need to be <em>Fortran-contiguous</em>.<br>
  Currently I accomplish this with <a href="http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.asfortranarray.html">numpy.asfortranarray()</a>.</p>
  
  <p>My questions are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Is this a fast way of telling numpy that the array should be stored in fortran style or is there a faster one?</li>
  <li>Is there the possibility to set some numpy flag, so that every array that is created is in fortran style?</li>
  </ol>