Finding dynamic libraries

[Bill Spotz]

Hi,

Is there a way to tell an executing python script where to look for  
dynamically-loaded libraries?

My situation is that that I am developing python wrappers for a large  
software project.  I create python wrappers with swig, and those  
extension modules link against dynamic libraries from the project.  I  
have many test scripts that I would like to be able to run *prior* to  
installing these libraries into a standard location.

I have tried altering the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH  
environment variables, both by direct assignment of os.environ and by  
calling os.putenv(), but neither results in python being able to find  
my dynamic libraries.

Thanks in advance

** Bill Spotz                                              **
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