Accessing shared library file...

[Ernesto]

I'm in the process of moving a Python application from Windows to
Linux.  This means that the drivers for windows ".dll" now must be
Linux drivers "shared library file" (.so I think).  With Windows, I
used:

ctypes ("from ctypes import windll")

Then "_dll = windll.NAME"

I'm not sure how to include this new Linux library.  Any suggestions?
Thanks!