Maybe it's possible to patch the dependency? For example, for Node.js / npm, there are automated ways to do this, like [patch-package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package). Does Python / pip have something similar?
You mean at the Python driver level? Unfortunately, that doesn't work with ctypes.
I've tried it by adding the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to os.environ before calling ctypes.LibraryLoader.LoadLibrary (https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.Library...) and it didn't work. I suspect ctypes gets somehow initialized much sooner and adding environment variables in your apps doesn't help.
TBH I didn't research it further, since the problems of the post are more general and it can happen that you trip into them regardless of runtime.
Right, but that would take some really deep patching of code I don't control, just so it works in development.
If this were a production issue, I would probably fork the driver and do what you're suggesting (it's not like it's actively maintained or something :|).
I've tried it by adding the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to os.environ before calling ctypes.LibraryLoader.LoadLibrary (https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.Library...) and it didn't work. I suspect ctypes gets somehow initialized much sooner and adding environment variables in your apps doesn't help.
TBH I didn't research it further, since the problems of the post are more general and it can happen that you trip into them regardless of runtime.