Python equivilent to dlopen/dlsym ?

[Nhi Vanye]

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>offer at sgi.com (Nhi Vanye) writes:
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>> What would be the python equivilent of dlopen()/dlsym(). I'm trying to
>> prototype some C code that will use dlopen to open a shared library and
>> ldsym() to call a particular function in it.
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>> The python file that implements the functions is listed in a runtime
>> configuration file. Because the configuration file will list multiple
>> python modules that each have the same function defined (I'll will chain
>> them when I call them) I don't want to pollute the name spaces.
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>> Any clues ?
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>Does execfile do what you want:
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>d = {}
>execfile("/path/to/file.py",d,d)
>sym = d[symbol_name]
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>?  If not, I'm not sure what you're after.

Good enough.

Thanks.

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>Cheers,
>M.
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richard.
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