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by hynek 1252 days ago
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.
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orf 1252 days ago
Here’s the relevant source: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8dd2766d99f8f51ad62dc...

I believe you should just be able to replace the library name with an absolute path to the library, and remove the need for the lookup at all?

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hynek 1252 days ago
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 :|).

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orf 1252 days ago
Why not fork it? If only to have the code under your control in case it abruptly becomes inaccessible.

Then the fix is a single if statement. Seems worth it to me.

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