[New-bugs-announce] [issue21042] ctypes.util.find_library() should return full pathname instead of filename in linux

[Hernan Grecco]

New submission from Hernan Grecco:

In Windows and OSX, `find_library` returns the full pathname of the library file. But on Linux, it returns just the filename. Is there a reason for this difference? 

For consistency, it would be better to return the full pathname in all cases. It is easy to get the filename from the full pathname, but not the other way around.

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components: ctypes
messages: 214647
nosy: Hernan.Grecco
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ctypes.util.find_library() should return full pathname instead of filename in linux
versions: Python 3.5

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