python 2.7.x on MacOSX: failed dlopen() on .so's

[Ned Deily]

In article <1384442536.3496.532.camel at pdsdesk>,
 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
[...]
> By relocatable I mean "runnable from any location"; i.e., not fixed.  I
> have a wrapper around the Python executable that can compute the correct
> root directory and set any environment variables or add flags or
> whatever might be needed.

In that case, the python.org installer may not be a good choice.  You should 
be to accomplish what you want by building your own Python.   You'll probably 
find you were getting tripped up by unnecessarily setting environment 
variables.  Good luck!

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org