How to tell a Python program where a shared library is?

[William Park]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:04:19PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> Suppose I have a shared library, say "mymodule.so". How do I tell a Python
> program where "mymodule.so" is? If necessary I can change the PATH environment
> variable. How is this done?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed Jones

The path is determined from 'sys.path'.  You can add to local path by
setting environment variable PYTHONPATH.

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