Availability: Unix.
The dl module defines an interface to the dlopen() function, which is the most common interface on Unix platforms for handling dynamically linked libraries. It allows the program to call arbitrary functions in such a library.
Note:
This module will not work unless
sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(char *)
If this is not the case, SystemError will be raised on
import.
The dl module defines the following function:
name[, mode = RTLD_LAZY ]) |
Return value is a dlobject.
The dl module defines the following constants:
The dl module defines the following exception:
Example:
>>> import dl, time >>> a=dl.open('/lib/libc.so.6') >>> a.call('time'), time.time() (929723914, 929723914.498)
This example was tried on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and is a good example of the fact that using this module is usually a bad alternative.
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