On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 18:41:53 -0700, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > Sometimes people load a library with ctypes like this: > > libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so") That specific example is unlikely to work on any modern Linux system, as libc.so is typically a linker script rather than a symlink to a DSO. Likewise for libm and libpthread.