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On 06/09/2012 17:58, Jerry Hill wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Helpful person <rrllff@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The reference might help if I could get Python to recognize the dll as
>> a module.
>
> That's never going to happen.  It's a DLL, not a python module.  I
> think the documentation lays that out pretty explicitly.  Have you
> experimented with the very first bit of example code in the
> documentation?  What do you get if you do the following at the
> interactive interpreter?
>
>>>> from ctypes import *
>>>> print windll.<insert your dll name here, without the .dll extension>
>
Or this:

 >>> import ctypes
 >>> dll_path = ...
 >>> libc = ctypes.CDLL(dll_path)
 >>> dir(libc)