On Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:21:56 PM UTC-4, Tim Williams wrote:
> On Thursday, September 6, 2012 11:07:07 AM UTC-4, Helpful person wrote:
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> > I am a complete novice to Python. I wish to access a dll that has
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> > Richard
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> I'm new to using the ctypes module also, but what I did to find the library
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> pth = os.environ['path'].split(';')
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> pth.append(os.path.join(os.environ['userprofile'],'My Documents','DLLs'))
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> os.environ['path'] = ';'.join(pth)
I should have also mentioned to look at LoadLibrary in the ctypes module. e.g.
mylib=cdll.LoadLibrary('mylib.dll')
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