import os import sys import unittest # Bob Ippolito: """ Ok.. the code to find the filename for __getattr__ should look something like: import os from macholib.dyld import dyld_find def find_lib(name): possible = ['lib'+name+'.dylib', name+'.dylib', name+'.framework/'+name] for dylib in possible: try: return os.path.realpath(dyld_find(dylib)) except ValueError: pass raise ValueError, "%s not found" % (name,) It'll have output like this: >>> find_lib('pthread') '/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib' >>> find_lib('z') '/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib' >>> find_lib('IOKit') '/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit' -bob """ from ctypes.macholib.dyld import dyld_find def find_lib(name): possible = ['lib'+name+'.dylib', name+'.dylib', name+'.framework/'+name] for dylib in possible: try: return os.path.realpath(dyld_find(dylib)) except ValueError: pass raise ValueError("%s not found" % (name,)) class MachOTest(unittest.TestCase): if sys.platform == "darwin": def test_find(self): self.assertEqual(find_lib('pthread'), '/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib') result = find_lib('z') self.assertTrue(result.startswith('/usr/lib/libz.1')) self.assertTrue(result.endswith('.dylib')) self.assertEqual(find_lib('IOKit'), '/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit') if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main()