OK, I went back and read the code.  What I should be using is "ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libgoodstuff.1.dylib")".  Thanks -- I think you can close this issue.

Bill

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Thomas Heller <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org> added the comment:

> The question is, which linker?  I think it should be ld.so, which links "on
> demand", and does pay attention to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  I'm not sure what the
> point of find_library() is, otherwise.

The best explanation is in the python docs:
http://docs.python.org/lib/ctypes-finding-shared-libraries.html

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