Hi, I am am falling at the first hurdle when trying to access a library using ctypes.
I have a file libucdb.so which the file command says is shared object, but I cannot get it to load: Any help would be appreciated: dmccarthy: file /opt/questasim_6.4/questasim/linux/libucdb.a /opt/ questasim_= 6.4/questasim/linux/libucdb.so /opt/questasim_6.4/questasim/linux/libucdb.a: current ar archive /opt/questasim_6.4/questasim/linux/libucdb.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,= Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped dmccarthy: python ActivePython 2.5.1.1 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 08:46:07) [GCC 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'cdll' is not defined >>> from ctypes import * >>> ^[[A^[[A ^e "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6") <CDLL 'libc.so.6', handle 2a958a2900 at 2a95dda490> >>> cdll.LoadLibrary("libucdb.so") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/software/unix-soft/linux/ActivePython-2.5.1.1-linux-x86_64/ lib/pyth= on2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 423, in LoadLibrary return self._dlltype(name) File "/software/unix-soft/linux/ActivePython-2.5.1.1-linux-x86_64/ lib/pyth= on2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 340, in __init__ self._handle =3D _dlopen(self._name, mode) OSError: libucdb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directo= ry >>> cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6") <CDLL 'libc.so.6', handle 2a958a2900 at 2a95df3ad0> >>> libc =3D CDLL("libc.so.6") >>> libc <CDLL 'libc.so.6', handle 2a958a2900 at 2a95dda490> >>> libc =3D CDLL("libucdb.so") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/software/unix-soft/linux/ActivePython-2.5.1.1-linux-x86_64/ lib/pyth= on2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 340, in __init__ self._handle =3D _dlopen(self._name, mode) OSError: libucdb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directo= ry >>> libc =3D CDLL("/opt/questasim_6.4/questasim/linux/libucdb.so") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/software/unix-soft/linux/ActivePython-2.5.1.1-linux-x86_64/ lib/pyth= on2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 340, in __init__ self._handle =3D _dlopen(self._name, mode) OSError: /opt/questasim_6.4/questasim/linux/libucdb.so: cannot open shared o= bject file: No such file or directory >>> ^[[A File "<stdin>", line 1 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list