shared library search path

[Neal Becker]

Stefan Arentz wrote:

> 
> Hi. I've wrapped a C++ class with Boost.Python and that works great. But,
> I am now packaging my application so that it can be distributed. The
> structure is basically this:
> 
>  .../bin/foo.py
>  .../lib/foo.so
>  .../lib/bar.py
> 
> In foo.py I do the following:
> 
>  sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(sys.path[0]) + '/lib')
> 
> and this allows foo.py to import bar. Great.
> 
> But, the foo.so cannot be imported. The import only succeeds if I place
> foo.so next to foo.py in the bin directory.
> 
> I searched through the 2.4.2 documentation on python.org but I can't find
> a proper explanation on how the shared library loader works.
> 
> Does anyone understand what it going on here?
> 
>  S.
> 

No, but here is the code I use:
import sys
sys.path.append ('../wrap')