[New-bugs-announce] [issue4875] find_library can return directories instead of files

[Ryan Kelly]

New submission from Ryan Kelly <ryan at rfk.id.au>:

On win32, ctypes.util.find_library uses os.path.exists() to check for
potential library files.  This means it is quite happy to return a
directory instead of a file, if one happens to exist with the
appropriate name somewhere in the search path.  Can this please be
changed to use os.path.isfile() instead of os.path.exists()?

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assignee: theller
components: ctypes
messages: 79385
nosy: rfk, theller
severity: normal
status: open
title: find_library can return directories instead of files
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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