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Re: Determining version of OpenSSL linked against python?

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From	Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:40:06 -0600
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 15:21, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:

> I suppose you could use ctypes to load the library and call SSLeay()
> which returns the OpenSSL version number as a C long.
>
> Like this:
>
> from ctypes import *
> libssl = cdll.LoadLibrary("libssl.so")
> openssl_version = libssl.SSLeay()
> print "%.9X" % openssl_version
>
> This gives me 0009080FF which corresponds to 0.9.8o release which is
> what I have installed in Debian Squeeze.

Thanks, that looks useful.

Cheers

Adam

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Determining version of OpenSSL linked against python? Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 14:01 -0600
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    Re: Determining version of OpenSSL linked against python? Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 15:40 -0600

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