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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:58:54 -0000 (UTC)
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Please forgive my interruption, but something in Muttley's comment needs
some clarification....

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:11:33 +0200, D wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
[snip]
>> For a properly designed language a container shouldn't be required. Using
>> a container to prevent library hell is like seeing a mess on your floor but
>> instead of clearing the mess you sweep it into seperate piles depending on
>> the type of rubbish. With C/C++ you can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH

1) The ability to alter the loader's library search path isn't a C/C++ feature,
   but, instead, is a feature of the loader, and is applicable to /any/ binary
   that uses "shared objects" ("DLL"s to those who came from a Windows environment).

2) LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not "the" Unix environment variable that alters the loader's
   library search path. Rather, it is /one flavour/ of such an environment variable.
   Depending on the Unix system, the environment variable can be called:
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or
     LIBPATH, or
     SHLIB_PATH, and
   there may be other names that I don't know of.

>> to use particular shared object files
>> but doing something similar with Python AFAIK is a hell of
>> a task.
>>
> 
> Thank you! You make me feel less of an outsider and old timer! ;)




-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"