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Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code

From	Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code
Date	2016-07-04 17:30 +0200
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Hi Afif,

On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 02:37:41AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> It's a Python extension as far as I know. After investigating this a bit
> more, it seems that numpy's ctypeslib.load_library function can guess
> the library's extension. So for the unit test (before dh-python has
> renamed anything and the library is still librarybasename.so), it can
> guess properly if it's called as
>
> numpy.ctypeslib.load_library("librarybasename","/path/to/library/")
>
> but this won't work afterwards.

If it *is* a Python extension, you can simply import it and get the path
using the __path__ attribute.

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Dmitry Shachnev

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pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org> - 2016-07-03 01:40 +0200
  Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-07-03 08:30 +0200
    Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Afif Elghraoui <afif@ghraoui.name> - 2016-07-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: pybuild renaming extensions breaks upstream code Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-07-04 17:30 +0200

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