Python equivilent to dlopen/dlsym ?

[Michael Hudson]

offer at sgi.com (Nhi Vanye) writes:

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any clues ?

Does execfile do what you want:

d = {}
execfile("/path/to/file.py",d,d)
sym = d[symbol_name]

?  If not, I'm not sure what you're after.

Cheers,
M.

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