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Re: Accessing dll

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On Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:21:56 PM UTC-4, Tim Williams wrote:
> On Thursday, September 6, 2012 11:07:07 AM UTC-4, Helpful person wrote:
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> > I am a complete novice to Python.  I wish to access a dll that has
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> I'm new to using the ctypes module also, but what I did to find the library was I appended the location of the dll to my PATH like so: (this is Windows)
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> pth = os.environ['path'].split(';')
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> pth.append(os.path.join(os.environ['userprofile'],'My Documents','DLLs'))
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> os.environ['path'] = ';'.join(pth)

I should have also mentioned to look at LoadLibrary in the ctypes module. e.g. 

mylib=cdll.LoadLibrary('mylib.dll')

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Accessing dll Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 08:07 -0700
  Re: Accessing dll Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 11:30 -0400
    Re: Accessing dll Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 08:41 -0700
    Re: Accessing dll Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 08:44 -0700
      Re: Accessing dll Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-07 22:15 +1000
        Re: Accessing dll Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-07 10:27 -0700
          Re: Accessing dll Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-08 21:21 +1000
    Re: Accessing dll Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 09:46 -0700
      Re: Accessing dll Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 12:58 -0400
        Re: Accessing dll Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 10:10 -0700
      Re: Accessing dll MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-09-06 18:17 +0100
  Re: Accessing dll Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-09-06 17:28 +0200
  Re: Accessing dll Tim Williams <tjandacw@cox.net> - 2012-09-06 13:21 -0700
    Re: Accessing dll Tim Williams <tjandacw@cox.net> - 2012-09-06 13:27 -0700

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